From the 1980s onward, neoliberal governance in the United States, Canada, and the
United Kingdom has emphasized competitive individualism and people have seemingly …

Research on the construct of self-criticism has been gaining attention in the
psychopathology and psychotherapy literature. The aims of this review are to provide an …

Background The Forms of Self‐Criticising/Attacking & Self‐Reassuring Scale (FSCRS,
Gilbert, Clarke, Hempel, Miles, & Irons, 2004, Br. J. Clin. Psychology, 43, 31) is a self‐report …

Self‐criticism plays a key role in many psychological disorders and predicts poor outcome in
psychotherapy. Yet, psychotherapy research directly targeting self‐critical processes is …

There is considerable evidence that self-criticism plays a major role in the vulnerability to
and recovery from psychopathology. Methods to measure this process, and its change over …

The behavioral inhibition system (BIS) is believed to underscore individual differences in
perfectionism, but existing research has yielded an inconsistent pattern of associations. The …

This paper presents the case of a 28‐year‐old woman diagnosed with major depressive
disorder, with strong features of perfectionism, shame, and self‐criticism, treated via 12 …

This systematic literature review examined the clinical utility of the construct of self‐disgust in
understanding mental distress. Specifically, the review assessed whether there is a shared …

In the current research, we illustrate the impact that item wording has on the content of
personality scales and how differences in item wording influence empirical results. We …

Burnout negatively affects around 40% of medical and dentistry students, a group with high
levels of perfectionism, repetitive negative thinking (RNT) and low self-compassion. So far …