Personal Standards and Self-Critical Perfectionism and Distress: Stress, Coping, and Perceived Social Support as Mediators and Moderators

The perfect recovery? Interactive influence of perfectionism and spillover work tasks on changes in exhaustion and mood around a vacation.

“…Third, employees high in perfectionistic concerns may face difficulties seeking and securing work-related support from supervisors and coworkers, given that perfectionistic individuals are often motivated to present a "perfect" image to the outside world, and may feel reluctant to reveal their (self-perceived) failings or inadequacies (a form of perfectionistic self-presentation; Mackinnon & Sherry, 2012). Moreover, perfectionistic concerns often involves a belief that significant others (e.g., one's boss) demand perfection, reducing the likelihood that a perfectionist would view those persons as a potential source of support (e.g., Dunkley, Solomon-Krakus, & Moroz, 2016;Mackinnon & Sherry, 2012;Sherry, Law, Hewitt, Flett, & Besser, 2008).…”

Perfectionism and depressive symptoms: The effects of psychological detachment from work

“…In developing preventive strategies for depression, it is valuable to consider also moderating factors that can mitigate the adverse effects of perfectionism. Despite attempts to identify buffering factors that could protect maladaptive perfectionists from depression, there has been, thus far, little progress in detecting such factors (Ashby, Dickinson, Gnilka, & Noble, 2011;Dunkley, Solomon-Krakus, & Moroz, 2016;Zhou, Zhu, Zhang, & Cai, 2013).…”

The Psychology of Perfectionism

“…One potentially important focus within this area of research is to assess the physical health status of perfectionists in terms of not only their current experiences, With these concepts in mind, we now provide an overview of the existing literature on perfectionism and stress. In general, research has supported Hewitt's (1993, 2002) notion that perfectionism generates stress, which, in turn, leads to greater psychopathology and a poorer sense of well-being over time (see Dunkley et al, 2016). For instance, Chang, Watkins, and Banks (2004) found that stress fully mediated the relationship between perfectionism and negative affect among Black women and partially mediated the relationship among White women.…”

“…For example, one investigation found that each of the subscales of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS; Frost et al, 1990) predicted greater tinnitus distress and higher levels of depression and anxiety among tinnitus sufferers (Anderson, Airikka, Buhrman, & Kaldo, 2005). This is not surprising in light of the robust associations between perfectionism and maladaptive coping in both healthy (Dunkley, Solomon-Krakus & Moroz, 2016; and chronically ill samples (Sirois & Molnar, 2014).…”