The literature examining the relation between perfectionism and eating disorders was reviewed and content and methodological comparisons were made with the perfectionism literature in anxiety disorders and depressive disorders. A PsychInfo search using the key words "perfectionism/perfect/perfectionistic," "anorexia," "bulimia," and "eating disorders" was performed and the generated list of pap...

The negative affect that results from negative feedback is a substantial, proximal cause of aggression. People high in maladaptive perfectionism, the tendency to focus on the discrepancy between one's standards and performance, are characterized by an exaggerated negative affective response to negative feedback. This exacerbated affective response to failure may then dispose them to hurt others...

Background: Suicidal ideation, as a risk factor for psychopathology, has diverse psychological and social impairments. ideation perfectionism are closely related to self-criticism. Objectives: In the present study, we investigated how self-criticism mediated relationship between suicidal perfectionism. Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 300 students selected from University of Sci...

introduction : the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of perfectionism and abnormal personality dimensions introduced in the fifth edition of diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, and to address this issue that to what extent each personality dimension can predict the dimensions of to perfectionism. method: the present study is descripti...

BACKGROUND The incidence of non-specific work-related upper limb disorders (WRULD) is rising throughout western society. Literature and our own WRULD file (>1200 patients) revealed that both physical and psychosocial work-related factors are major causes of non-specific WRULD. It also appeared that non-specific WRULD was more likely to develop in patients with neurotic-perfectionist personaliti...