This paper reviews the characteristics of clinical perfectionism and proposes a new definition of the phenomenon. It is suggested that the defining feature of clinically significant …
Grounded in decades of influential research, this book thoroughly examines perfectionism: how it develops, its underlying mechanisms and psychological costs, and how to target it …
D Gould, K Dieffenbach, A Moffett - Journal of applied sport …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This study was designed to examine psychological characteristics and their development in Olympic champions. Ten US Olympic champions (winners of 32 Olympic medals) were …
DM Dunkley, DC Zuroff… - Journal of personality and …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
This study of university students (64 men and 99 women) examined both dispositional and situational influences of self-critical (SC) perfectionism on stress and coping, which explain …
A concept involving the interpersonal expression of perfection, perfectionistic self- presentation, is introduced. It is argued that perfectionistic self-presentation is a maladaptive …
The literature examining the relation between perfectionism and eating disorders was reviewed and content and methodological comparisons were made with the perfectionism …
In this chapter the author discusses separation and relatedness theories of personality development as well as the few theorists who emphasize the parallel development of both …
GL Flett, PL Hewitt, KR Blankstein… - Journal of personality and …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
Five studies tested the hypotheses that there are individual differences in the frequency of automatic thoughts involving perfectionism and that these thoughts are associated with …
To explore the role of perfectionism across anxiety disorders, 175 patients with either panic disorder (PD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), social phobia, or specific phobia, as …