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Preliminary development of a questionnaire designed to measure neurotic perfectionism in the eating disorders

Preliminary development of a questionnaire designed to measure neurotic perfectionism in the... 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 internaal 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Clinical Psychology Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0021-9762
eISSN
1097-4679
DOI
10.1002/1097-4679(199407)50:4<516::AID-JCLP2270500406>3.0.CO;2-0
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Abstract

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 internaal 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.

Journal

Journal of Clinical PsychologyWiley

Published: Jul 1, 1994

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