فهرست مطالب بتول صالحی

Eating disorders are behavioral nutritional disorders with a psycho-social origin, and are considered as one of the global concerns. This study aims to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and binge eating disorder (BED) in female college students, mediated by distress tolerance. 

This is a descriptive-correlational study using structural equation modeling. The study population consists of all female college students in Isfahan, Iran, of whom 214 were selected as the samples by a convenience sampling method. They completed the Perfectionism Inventory, distress tolerance scale, and binge eating scale.

The results indicated a good fit of the study model. The total effect coefficient (sum of direct and indirect effect coefficients) between adaptive perfectionism and BED was negative and significant (P<0.01, β=-0.286), while the total path coefficient between non-adaptive perfectionism and BED was positive and significant (P<0.01, β=0.329). Therefore, distress tolerance negatively mediated the relationship between adaptive perfectionism and BED, and positively mediated the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and BED.

It is important to pay attention to the mediating role of distress tolerance in the relationship between perfectionism and BED. The therapists should include this component in occupational therapy.

Eating disorders are among the most harmful psychiatric disorders, associated with important medical and psychological illnesses that cause significant personal, family, and social costs. The aim of the present study was to determine the mediating role of adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies on perfectionism and symptoms of binge eating disorder in female college students. In this respect, a descriptive-correlational study was performed and 214 female college students in Isfahan city were selected through the convenience sampling method and investigated in terms of perfectionism, cognitive emotion regulation, and binge eating. The results of the path analysis indicated that the research model was appropriate. It was also shown that the direct path of the perfectionism variable was not significant to the variable of binge eating disorder symptoms (β = 0.016, T = 0.218), but this variable was able to affect the symptoms of binge eating disorder through the mediating variable of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation (β = 0.166, P = 0.001). Based on the results of the present study, it is suggested to consider the mediating role of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship between perfectionism and symptoms of binge eating disorder and therapists need to incorporate this component in their therapeutic application.