Attachment insecurities, maladaptive perfectionism, and eating disorder symptoms: A latent mediated and moderated structural equation modeling analysis across diagnostic groups

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 176-184

  Dakanalis, Antonios ^a,b,c   Timko, C Alix ^d   Zanetti, M Assunta ^a   Rinaldi, Lucio ^e,f   Prunas, Antonio ^g,h   Carrà, Giuseppe ⁱ   Riva, Giuseppe ^j,k   Clerici, Massimo ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f Hygiene and Health Medicine Unit   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^h Personality Disorders Lab   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^k ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Attachment anxiety; Attachment avoidance; Eating disorders; Mediator; Moderator; Perfectionism; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; ATTACHMENT ANXIETY; ATTACHMENT AVOIDANCE; BULIMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EATING DISORDER; EATING DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSECURE ATTACHMENT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADAPTIVE PERFECTIONISM; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATTACHMENT ANXIETY; ATTACHMENT AVOIDANCE; EATING DISORDERS; MEDIATOR; MODERATOR; PERFECTIONISM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892857850     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.10.039     Document Type: Article

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