Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p Clinical experience and research established a strong relationship between perfectionism and eating disorders. The view on perfectionism has changed substantially during the last decades, such that it was first considered a unidimensional and pathological intrapersonal feature and was later considered from a multidimensional perspective. The latter approach distinguished between maladaptive and relatively more adaptive features of, perfectionism. In this review article, we provide an empirical overview of research on the role of perfectionism in eating disorders from a conceptual perspective. This overview suggests that, although both adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism are involved in eating disorders, the effects of maladaptive perfectionism are more consistent and pronounced than the effects of adaptive perfectionism. We provide some critical notes and identify some problems in extant perfectionism research and review existing treatments of perfectionism within the context of eating disorders.. }
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- aggregation abstract "Clinical experience and research established a strong relationship between perfectionism and eating disorders. The view on perfectionism has changed substantially during the last decades, such that it was first considered a unidimensional and pathological intrapersonal feature and was later considered from a multidimensional perspective. The latter approach distinguished between maladaptive and relatively more adaptive features of, perfectionism. In this review article, we provide an empirical overview of research on the role of perfectionism in eating disorders from a conceptual perspective. This overview suggests that, although both adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism are involved in eating disorders, the effects of maladaptive perfectionism are more consistent and pronounced than the effects of adaptive perfectionism. We provide some critical notes and identify some problems in extant perfectionism research and review existing treatments of perfectionism within the context of eating disorders.".