SAMOPOŠTOVANJE I PERFEKCIONIZAM KAO KORELATI PROVOĐENJA DIJETE KOD ADOLESCENTICA
PERFECTIONISM AND SELF-ESTEEM AS CORRELATES OF DIETING IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS

Summary/Abstract: Adolescents' physical appearance and perception of attractiveness are among their top concerns nowadays. Adolescent females frequently start dieting because they are unhappy with their bodies and want to be slender. This, together with certain psychological variables, can result in eating disorders. In the world, nutritional issues are a major concern. It is really concerning and concerning that dieting can have a variety of physical and psychological impacts. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the two most prevalent eating disorders. The work's goal was to look at the relationship between teenage girls' diet implementation and their levels of self-esteem and perfectionism. A random sample of 260 teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 18 participated in the study. The following scales were employed in addition to the sociodemographic questionnaire: The APS-R perfectionism scale (Scale, Slaney et al., 2001), the adolescent behavior scale (Patton et al., 1997, according to Ambrosi Randić, 2001), and Rosenberg's self-esteem scale (Rosenberg, 1965) all demonstrated strong reliability in this study. According to the findings, 55% of teenage females were dieting or currently are, and there were notable age disparities in dieting. Self - esteem is a major negative predictor of diet in adolescent girls, although maladaptive perfectionism is not. Everything indicates to the importance of developing preventive and intervention programs that begin with student and parent education.

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