The mediating role of anger and perfectionism in relation between personality traits and eating disorders beliefs among high school students in Bajestan city

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 MA. student in clinical psychology, Department of psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran

2 Ph.D. in educational psychology, Department of psychology, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Eating disorders are considered as one of the worrying factors in public health at a rapidly increasing rate since the 1970s. The present study aimed to assess the mediating role of anger and perfectionism in relation between personality traits and eating disorders beliefs among high school students in Bajestan city.
 
Materials and Methods: In this correlational study, 210 girl high school students of Bajestan city (academic year of 2013-2014) randomly selected using cluster sampling method. In order to assess the variables of the study, Eating Attitudes Questionnaire, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Multidimensional Anger Scale and the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) were used.
 
Results: The results obtained from the present study indicated that there is a direct (positive) significant effect of the direct impact of personality on anger and perfectionism in modeling eating disorders beliefs. In addition, the anger has a positive significant impact on eating beliefs, whereas, there is no significant relationship (P>0.05) between perfectionism and eating beliefs. There is also positive significant relationship between “oral control of eating disorder and parental criticism” and perfectionism (P<0.05).
 
Conclusion: The results of the study revealed that personality disorders can directly or indirectly explain the abnormal eating beliefs by mediating anger, not perfectionism.

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Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 19, special issue
May and June 2017
Pages 235-242

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