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Title: Can Cognitive Flexibility and Clinical Perfectionism Be Used to Identify People with Anorexia Nervosa?
Austin Authors: Miles, Stephanie;Nedeljkovic, Maja;Phillipou, Andrea 
Affiliation: Mental Health
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Department of Mental Health, St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
Issue Date: 31-Mar-2022
Date: 2022
Publication information: Journal of Clinical Medicine 2022; 11(7): 1954.
Abstract: Poor cognitive flexibility and perfectionism are common features in anorexia nervosa (AN). The current study aimed to investigate cognitive flexibility and clinical perfectionism as potential predictors of AN. Twenty women with a current diagnosis of AN (M age = 28.25, SD = 7.62) and 170 community participants with no lifetime history of an eating disorder (M age = 29.23, SD = 9.88) took part in an online cross-sectional study that included self-report questionnaires of cognitive flexibility and clinical perfectionism. It was found that compared to the community sample, women with AN self-reported significantly poorer cognitive flexibility and significantly greater clinical perfectionism. In a regression model, clinical perfectionism (but not self-reported cognitive flexibility) significantly predicted group membership. The specificity and sensitivity of the model were high. These preliminary findings indicate that clinical perfectionism may represent a key feature of AN and may accurately discriminate between participants with and without AN, though more research is required.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/29936
DOI: 10.3390/jcm11071954
ORCID: 0000-0001-8190-894X
0000-0003-1009-6619
Journal: Journal of Clinical Medicine
PubMed URL: 35407563
PubMed URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35407563/
ISSN: 2077-0383
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: anorexia
cognitive flexibility
eating disorders
perfectionism
self-report
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