This work represents the first review paper to explore the relationship between perfectionistic personality and borderline personality organization. The developmental origins, identity diffusion, interpersonal difficulties, and defense mechanisms that are common to both borderline personality and the interpersonal components of perfectionism are explored, and existing research on perfectionism ...

abstract the present study attempted to investigate the relationship between english language teacher perfectionism, teacher burnout, and teacher efficacy. for the purpose of the study, 114 teachers in tabadkan district, mashhad, were chosen. eighty-three of the participants were female and thirty-one were male with different majors in english language. three questionnaires, namely the scale on...

abstract the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between three main characteristics of teachers; namely, perfectionism, leadership and empowerment, amongst iranian english and math teachers. to do so, two groups of teachers were selected to participate in this study. one consisted of 177 math teachers and the other comprised 200 english teachers. all were teaching in khorasan ...

This study aimed to investigate perfectionism among talented students and its relationship their self-esteem. Eighty-nine male female in King Abdullah II Schools for Excellence Jordan were administered. Big Three Perfectionism Scale Self-Esteem Rosenberg used based on arithmetic mean, standard deviations, T-test independent samples Pearson correlation. The results indicate that the levels of th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the degree of absolute change, relative stability and state dependence of trait perfectionism in sleep disturbances in a sample of university students. METHOD Participants completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and two items concerning sleep difficulties. The mean age at T0 (baseline) was 19.59 years (SD = 1.61, range = 17-25) and 62.5% of the sample were fem...

This paper provides an overview of recent research studies on perfectionism in the context of the changing conceptions of perfectionism as well as the development of new multidimensional perfectionism measures. The findings on the dimensionality and typology of perfectionism as well as the prevalence of perfectionism among gifted students have led to the conclusion that perfectionism can be dis...

This article attempted to demonstrate that the perfectionism construct is multidimensional, comprising both personal and social components, and that these components contribute to severe levels of psychopathology. We describe three dimensions of perfectionism: self-oriented perfectionism, other-oriented perfectionism, and socially prescribed perfectionism. Four studies confirm the multidimensio...

Objective To explore 1) if perfectionism, perceived distress/coping, and cognitive emotion regulation (CER) are associated with and predictive of negative/positive affect (NA/PA); and 2) if CER and perceived distress/coping are associated with perfectionism and if they mediate the perfectionism-NA/PA associations. There is a distinction between maladaptive and adaptive perfectionism in its asso...

BACKGROUND Clinical perfectionism is a transdiagnostic process that has been found to maintain eating disorders, anxiety disorders and depression. Cognitive behavioural models explaining the maintenance of clinical perfectionism emphasize the contribution of dichotomous thinking and resetting standards higher following both success and failure in meeting their goals. There has been a paucity of...

Multidimensional perfectionism is related to grandiose narcissism, with other-oriented perfectionism showing the strongest, most consistent relationships. The relationships with vulnerable narcissism, however, are unclear. Our study investigated how three forms of perfectionism—self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism (Hewitt & Flett, 1991)—are related to narcissisti...