Kwasniewska, Nina (2022) The association between eating disorder symptoms, perfectionism and the mediating effect of emotion regulation. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to measure the relationship between eating disorder symptoms and clinical perfectionism and the mediation effect of emotion regulation difficulties in a non-clinical sample. The influence of perfectionism and emotion regulation strategies, both together and separately, on the development and maintenance of eating pathology, has been broadly discussed in the field literature. Research shows that maladaptive perfectionism and adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies are associated with eating disorders and that contribute to the severity or improvement of the symptoms and might influence treatment outcomes in clinical settings. Nevertheless, not much is known about these factors in non-clinical samples. In the current study, first, a total of 357 participants (254 females, 96 males, and 7 non-binary; Mage = 31, SD = 14.84) were asked to complete the online survey, consisting of scales measuring, inter alia, eating disorder symptoms, clinical perfectionism, and emotion regulation difficulties. Further, the relationship between perfectionism and eating disorder symptoms was measured, and second, the mediation effect of emotion regulation on this relationship was examined. The results indicate that there was a significant relationship between perfectionism and eating disorder symptoms. Additionally, this relationship was partially mediated by emotion regulation difficulties. Therefore, the effect of perfectionism on eating disorder symptoms is partially explained by the presence of emotion regulation difficulties. For future research, it was suggested that more extended research with additional factors added to the model could improve the relevance of findings in non-clinical settings.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Frey, M.I. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2022 08:29 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2022 08:29 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/911 |
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