Five separate studies examined the associations of self-criticism and self-oriented perfectionism with goal pursuit across a variety of domains. Although self-criticism has previously been shown to be related to diminished goal progress, a controversy remains regarding the potential association between aspects of "positive perfectionism," such as self-oriented perfectionism, and enhanced goal p...

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the accident involvement of elderly drivers to date is low, corresponding to their low traffic participation. With a definite increase in the number of elderly drivers in the near future frequent adverse effects on traffic safety are expected. Particularly age changes in vision and reaction ability are considered to be important. Compared to a representative ...

The author responds to Professor Kottow's criticisms, explaining numerous errors and misconceptions.

The present study extended previous findings demonstrating self-criticism, assessed by the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) (Weissman AN, Beck AT. Development and validation of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale: a preliminary investigation. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1978), as a potentially important prospe...

Self-criticism represents a central phenomenon among variety of psychological distress and has been shown to relate the motivational systems competing social ranking. The purpose our study was test effect online compassion-focused therapy (CFT)-based intervention (CFI) on Chinese international students in South Korea suffering from high self-criticism related distress. Thirty-two with level wer...

Given the commonly-cited "research-practice gaps" and nascent status of the dissemination and implementation (DI) field as it relates to psychological science, a multidisciplinary synthesis of the literature relating to DI efforts is an important addition. This is particularly true given that one prominent criticism of the DI field is that efforts to disseminate and implement evidence-based pra...

This study aims to know and analyze the theory of individuality social interest based on Alfred Adler's perspective main character in novel Anak Rantau written by Ahmad Fuadi. The approach question is related personality psychology character, which known from storyline. method used this research descriptive-qualitative literature review. result that reflects theoretical principles their attitud...