Although research has demonstrated perfectionism to have a negative impact on the treatment of depression, little research has examined the mechanisms or processes through which perfectionism predicts subsequent depressive symptoms in clinical populations over time. Using data from a prospective, 3-year study of a clinical sample (N = 96), hierarchical regression analyses indicated that perfect...

Objectives There is limited data regarding the prevalence of suicidal risk among physicians during COVID-19, and factors relating to it. Dominant for suicide are depression burnout. Maladaptive perfectionism may also serve as a profound factor suicidality aggravate symptoms distress under challenges COVID-19. This study aims evaluate current risk, ideation, depression, burnout before COVID-19 i...

Based on theory and findings from qualitative and quantitative research, we developed and investigated a model of positive body image. This model placed body appreciation in a mediating role, linking interpersonal (caregiver eating messages, adult attachment) and intrapersonal (perfectionism) variables to intuitive eating and depressive symptoms. Path analysis supported our model for 249 colleg...

Grounded in the theoretical framework of achievement goal theory and perfectionism theory, the purpose of this study was to examine how self-assessed perceived abilities covariance these variables among Norwegian football academy players. 140 adolescent football players participated, representing three football academies. Perceived competence was reported as equivalent to or better than others....

Social phobics were compared to patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia and normal controls on perfectionism and self-consciousness. On concern over mistakes and doubts about action, social phobics scored higher than patients with panic disorder. Social phobics also demonstrated a higher level of public self-consciousness than patients with panic disorder and when this difference was cont...

The present research uses self-determination theory to examine whether autonomous and controlled regulation of performance-approach (PAp) goals would differentially predict educational outcomes and add to the variance explained by the goal strength. Two cross-sectional studies among 10th to 12th grade students supported this hypothesis but showed that when regulations of PAp goals were entered ...

The educational process is saturated with evaluative situations, which often provoke a specific subtype of anxiety known as test anxiety. Since not reliable direct predictor achievement, contemporary research has consistently highlighted the need to explore how this situation-specific trait indirectly affects success through various mediation and moderation processes. goal study was determine e...