Social Anxiety And Bulimic Behavior Research Paper

Lindsay Collette
October 15, 2015
Professor Markham
Lesson 5 Lab

This article is about the relationship between social anxiety and bulimic behaviors and whether individuals with elevated social anxiety and higher perfectionism would lead to greater bulimic behaviors.
The main themes are:
• Social anxiety and eating disorders.
• There is very little known information about the mechanisms underlying the co-occurrence between social anxiety and bulimic behaviors.
• Perfectionism- “individuals with elevated social anxiety are thought to set perfectionistic goals in social situations...” (Silgado, Timpano, Buckner, & Schmidt, 2009). In the study “The Role of Perfectionism in Bulimia” the main hypothesis “whether individuals