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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran. , sadeghi.m@lu.ac.ir
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Background: Anorexia nervosa has the highest prevalence rate in adolescent girls and the highest mortality rate among mental disorders, in which the role of developmental contexts such as parental personality disorder is highlighted. Although research has pointed to the role of parental personality disorder in the occurrence of this disorder in female adolescents, there are still many research gaps about the mediators of this relationship, and so far the role of perfectionism and body image disorder has been less addressed.
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between a serial pattern of personality disorder in parents and anorexia nervosa in female adolescents mediated by perfectionism and body image disorder.
Methods: The research method is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive method of correlation type, which was done using structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this study consisted of all high school girls in Zahedan city in the academic year 2024-2025. The sample of this study was 340 female students in Zahedan who were selected by convenience sampling. To collect the data, the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale (Stice et al., 2000), the Personality Style and Disorder Inventory (Kohl & Kazan, 2009), the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost et al., 2009) and the body image disturbances (Welch et al., 2012) were used. The data were analyzed using SPSS.27 and AMOS.24 software using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling.
Results: The results of structural equation modeling indicated a desirable fit with the data. Parental personality disorder has an effect on anorexia nervosa in adolescent girls both directly and indirectly through perfectionism in the first order and body image disorder in the second order (P<0.05). Also, perfectionism has a direct and indirect effect on anorexia nervosa in adolescent girls through body image disorders (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The results of such studies can help researchers and therapists to design educational and therapeutic packages that focus on the whole family system instead of focusing on the patient.
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between a serial pattern of personality disorder in parents and anorexia nervosa in female adolescents mediated by perfectionism and body image disorder.
Methods: The research method is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive method of correlation type, which was done using structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this study consisted of all high school girls in Zahedan city in the academic year 2024-2025. The sample of this study was 340 female students in Zahedan who were selected by convenience sampling. To collect the data, the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale (Stice et al., 2000), the Personality Style and Disorder Inventory (Kohl & Kazan, 2009), the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost et al., 2009) and the body image disturbances (Welch et al., 2012) were used. The data were analyzed using SPSS.27 and AMOS.24 software using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling.
Results: The results of structural equation modeling indicated a desirable fit with the data. Parental personality disorder has an effect on anorexia nervosa in adolescent girls both directly and indirectly through perfectionism in the first order and body image disorder in the second order (P<0.05). Also, perfectionism has a direct and indirect effect on anorexia nervosa in adolescent girls through body image disorders (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The results of such studies can help researchers and therapists to design educational and therapeutic packages that focus on the whole family system instead of focusing on the patient.
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Received: 2025/04/12 | Accepted: 2025/07/11 | Published: 2026/04/21
Received: 2025/04/12 | Accepted: 2025/07/11 | Published: 2026/04/21
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