Positive and negative perfectionism

Terry-Short, L.A.; Owens, R. Glynn; Slade, Pauline; Dewey, Michael

doi:10.1016/0191-8869(94)00192-u

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“…Perfectionism was conceptualized in terms of perceived consequences, and this conceptualization was modeled after the behavioral principles of positive and negative reinforcement (Terry-Short, Owens, Slade, & Dewey, 1995). There was evidence that marathon runners displayed similar levels of perfectionism as those seen in individuals with eating disorders, but levels of dissatisfaction that were comparable to normal controls.…”

Section: Theoretical Debatementioning

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Examination of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Religiosity as Mediated by Psychological Inflexibility

2011

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The relationship between perfectionism and religiosity is clarified when the adaptive and maladaptive dimensions of both constructs are compared. Literature in both areas implicates the idea of a rigid and inflexible personality style as a possible mediator in the relationship. This investigation examined the relationship of perfectionism and religiosity, using adaptive and maladaptive dimensions, as mediated by psychological inflexibility.Measures of perfectionism, religiosity, and psychological inflexibility were given to 376 undergraduate college students in an anonymous online survey. Adaptive perfectionism was found to be significantly correlated with adaptive religiosity.Maladaptive perfectionism was found to be significantly correlated with maladaptive religiosity. Psychological inflexibility was found to be significantly correlated with the maladaptive dimensions of both perfectionism and religiosity. It was also shown to iv mediate the relationship between maladaptive religiosity and maladaptive perfectionism using the test of mediation proposed by Baron and Kenny. Implications and future directions are discussed.(86 pages) v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Section: Theoretical Debatementioning

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Examination of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Religiosity as Mediated by Psychological Inflexibility

2011

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“…Further studies using the Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale (PANPS; Terry-Short, Owens, Slade, & Dewey, 1995) to capture perfectionistic strivings (positive perfectionism) versus perfectionistic concerns (negative perfectionism) often find negative perfectionism to show larger and more consistently positive relationships with eating disorder symptoms than positive perfectionism (e.g., Haase, Prapavessis, & Owens, 1999 with some studies finding positive perfectionism to show negative relationships with eating disorder symptoms PHYSICAL APPEARANCE PERFECTIONISM 4 when the overlap with negative perfectionism is statistically controlled for (e.g., Chan & Owens, 2006;Choo & Chan, 2013). Whether the findings can be interpreted as evidence for perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns showing different relationships with eating disorder symptoms is unclear, however.…”

Section: Perfectionism Dimensionsmentioning

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“…The reason is that the PANPS has shown problems with content validity and factorial validity. As regards content validity, the PANPS was designed to capture positive and negative consequences of perfectionism (Terry-Short et al, 1995) following Slade and Owens' (1998) dual process model of perfectionism based on reinforcement theory.…”

Section: Perfectionism Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism

Stoeber

Yang

2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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Document VersionPublisher pdf Stoeber, J., & Yang, H. (2015). Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism. Personality and Individual Differences, 86,[303][304][305][306][307] Physical appearance perfectionism is a domain-specific form of perfectionism comprising two components: hope for perfection and worry about imperfection (Yang & Stoeber, 2012).Previous studies found that physical appearance perfectionism is related to eating disorder symptoms, particularly the worry about imperfection component, but did not address the question of whether physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism. The present study investigated the question examining 559 female university students. Physical appearance perfectionism explained an additional 9-17% of variance in eating disorder symptoms above the 11-20% variance explained by general perfectionism. The findings suggest that physical appearance perfectionism plays an important role in disordered eating beyond general perfectionism.

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“…On the one hand, there is the dimension of perfectionistic strivings, representing striving for perfection and high personal standards for performance. This dimension has also been described as adaptive, healthy, or positive perfectionism (see Rice et al, 1998;Stumpf & Parker, 2000;Terry-Short et al, 1995).…”

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Perfectionism and achievement goals in young Finnish ice-hockey players aspiring to make the Under-16 national team

Stoeber

Stoll

Salmi

et al. 2009

Journal of Sports Sciences

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Research on perfectionism suggests that is it useful to differentiate between perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns. Regarding the 2 × 2 achievement goal framework, the usefulness of this differentiation was recently demonstrated in a study with university student athletes (Stoeber, Stoll, Pescheck, & Otto, 2008, Study 2) that found perfectionistic strivings associated with mastery-approach and performanceapproach goals and perfectionistic concerns with mastery-avoidance, performanceapproach, and performance-avoidance goals. Because the study was largely exploratory and only investigated non-elite athletes, the aim of the present research was to replicate and extend these findings by investigating a sample of 138 young elite ice-hockey players, while adding further measures of perfectionism and using structural equation modeling (SEM) to confirm the relationships between perfectionistic strivings, perfectionistic concerns, and the 2 × 2 achievement goals. The SEM results showed that, also in elite athletes, perfectionistic strivings are associated with mastery-approach and performance-approach goals, whereas perfectionistic concerns are associated with mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals. Findings corroborate the importance of differentiating between perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns when regarding perfectionism in sports, because only perfectionistic concerns (and not perfectionistic strivings) are associated with maladaptive patterns of achievement goals.

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Positive and negative perfectionism

Cited by 370 publications

References 10 publications

Examination of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Religiosity as Mediated by Psychological Inflexibility

Examination of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Religiosity as Mediated by Psychological Inflexibility

Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism

Perfectionism and achievement goals in young Finnish ice-hockey players aspiring to make the Under-16 national team

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