ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Orthorexia Nervosa: over concern or obsession about healthy food?
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- Multidimensional perfectionism and orthorexia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Pooled it
- Psychological and motivational correlates of orthorexia nervosa: the role of perfectionism, emotion regulation, and health attitudes.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Pathological Eating Patterns in Adults Displaying Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A Scoping Review.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- A Combined Network Analysis for Orthorexia Nervosa, Obsessive Compulsive, and Eating Disorder Symptoms.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Exploration of the Mediating Role of Self-Compassion and Mindfulness on Orthorexia Nervosa and Perfectionism.Psychological reports · 2026Article
- From health to harm: Cross-sectional analysis of factors associated with orthorexia nervosa.Neuroscience applied · 2026Article
- What is more likely in orthorexia nervosa: perfectionism or OC symptoms? A bayesian method in clinical and non-clinical samples.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between healthy eating obsessions, clinical eating disorder, and health anxiety: the dark side of the pursuit of healthy eating.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Adaptation of the Food Literacy (FOODLIT) Tool for Turkish Adults: A Validity and Reliability Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Measuring Pathological and Nonpathological Orthorexic Behavior: Validation of the Teruel Orthorexia Scale (TOS) among Polish Adults.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Mediating effect of psychological distress and mindful eating behaviors between orthorexia nervosa and academic self-efficacy among Lebanese university female students.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Perfectionism as a moderator of the relationship between orthorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- Profiling orthorexia nervosa in young adults: the role of obsessive behaviour, perfectionism, and self-esteem.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Relationship between disgust and orthorexia nervosa and psychometric properties of the Italian Dusseldorf orthorexia scale in a general population sample.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Exploring the relationship between dysfunctional metacognitive processes and orthorexia nervosa: the moderating role of emotion regulation strategies.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Perfectionism or Perfectionisms in Orthorexia Nervosa.Nutrients · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Orthorexia Nervosa and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- Orthorexia Nervosa, Eating Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Selective Review of the Last Seven Years.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Orthorexia nervosa and dieting in a non-clinical sample: a prospective study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeOrthorexia Nervosa is characterized by specific behaviors frequently related to other psychopathological conditions, such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Eating Disorders (EDs). Whereas ON can mainly be described as an excessive concern regarding healthy food, the study's principal aim was to investigate if ON could be considered a condition related and differentiated from worry, other than OCD, EDs, perfectionism, anxiety, and depression.
methodTo achieve these aims, 302 individuals from the general population were enrolled and were divided into two groups named "High EHQ" and "Low EHQ", based on their Eating Habits Questionnaire's score (EHQ-21).
resultsCorrelations of ON with EDs and non-adaptive perfectionism constructs emerged independently from Obsessive-Compulsive (OC) symptoms, and the same pattern was observed when comparing the High and the Low EHQ groups. The two groups also differ in the worry anxiety and depression constructs and are not affected by OC symptoms removal. DISCUSSION: Our results confirm a relationship between ON with the typical ED, perfectionistic, anxious, and depressive symptomatology, mainly when the OC features are controlled; moreover, worry constructs could be considered characteristic of the ON phenomenology. This study does not entirely exclude the relationship with obsessive and compulsive characteristics, which could be associated with or serve as a mediator of the orthorexic behavior. Future research could explore the potential mediating or collateral role of OC symptoms. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies.
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