Associations between Fat Talk and Perfectionistic Traits, Cognitions and Self-Presentations, Personality and Depression

Analyses confirmed that fat talk was positively correlated with self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism, perfectionistic self-presentation, and perfectionistic cognitions. Additionally, emotionality and socially prescribed perfectionism predicted fat talk over and above the broad personality dimensions. Lastly, the measure of fat talk mediated the link between perfectionistic self-presentation and depression.