Preliminary development of a questionnaire designed to measure neurotic perfectionism in the eating disorders.
The preliminary development and validation of a new self-report questionnaire (the NPQ) for measuring neurotic perfectionism in the eating-disorder population is described. The 42-item instrument demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency. All test items correlated significantly with both SCANS P and SCANS D (subscales of the SCANS [Slade & Dewey, 1986]), thus indicating neurotic perfectionism according to Slade, Newton, Butler, and Murphy (1991), and discriminated well between controls and eating-disorder patients. NPQ scores demonstrated significant group differences on comparison of neurotic perfectionists with normal and non-perfectionists (defined by the SCANS) and with subjects who scored above the EAT-26 (Garner, Olmsted, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982) subscale cut-offs when compared with those who scored below.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D002032:Bulimia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D012925:Social Conformity