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The role of personal standards in clinically significant perfectionism. A person-oriented approach to the study of patterns of perfectionism

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Summary, in English

Clinically significant perfectionism is defined as patterns of perfectionism which are over-represented in clinical samples and under-represented in non-clinical samples. The present study contrasted two hypotheses about what characterizes clinically significant perfectionism: the two-factor theory and perfectionism/acceptance theory. First, a person-oriented approach by means of cluster analysis was used to identify typical patterns of perfectionism. These clusters were then cross-tabulated with two clinical samples (patients with social phobia and patients with panic disorder) and a non-clinical sample. The results showed that patterns of clinically significant perfectionism combined high Concern over Mistakes (CM) and Doubts about Action (DA) with high Personal Standards (PS) (and to a lesser extent also high Organization)--which is consistent with perfectionism/acceptance theory, but at odds with the two-factor theory. The results illustrate the value of a person-oriented methodological approach as a complement to the traditional variable-oriented approach.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

333-350

Publication/Series

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volume

32

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • person-oriented approach
  • depression
  • panic disorder
  • perfectionism
  • social phobia

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0147-5916