1. A new look at the links between perceived parenting, socially-prescribed perfectionism, and disordered eating.
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Reilly, Erin E., Stey, Paul, and Lapsley, Daniel K.
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PERFECTIONISM (Personality trait) , *PATHOLOGY , *EATING disorders , *AUTONOMY (Psychology) , *PSYCHOLOGICAL factors , *PARENTING & psychology - Abstract
Perfectionism mediates the relation between parental psychological control and disordered eating, but it is unclear whether it functions similarly within associations between other parenting characteristics and eating pathology. The current study tested socially-prescribed perfectionism (SPP) as a mediator of the relations between two facets of perceived parenting style--autonomy support and psychological control--with disordered eating. Undergraduates (N =333, 100% female) completed self-report measurement of study variables. Results indicated that psychological control and autonomy support were moderately correlated. Additionally, the indirect effect of parenting variables on disordered eating through SPP was significant across reports for both mother and father. When the directionality of variables was reversed, no indirect effects were significant, supporting the hypothesized relations between study variables. Findings reinforce prior work highlighting perfectionism as an important mechanism in the etiology of disordered eating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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