Perfectionism

Nepon, Flett, Hewitt, and Molnar (2011) studied the relationship between perfectionism, negative social feedback, interpersonal rumination, depression, and anxiety. Participants were taken from an undergraduate university and given a variety of measures to assess each variable. The authors were able to collect data that supported their hypotheses. They predicted that socially prescribed perfectionism would be positively correlated with interpersonal rumination, and this was true in the study (p…

Perfectionism is a personality trait that is described as the person’s need for purity and spotlessness by setting high performance goals, which are accompanied by extreme self-evaluations and concerns for other’s evaluations about self (socially prescribed perfectionism) (Stoeber, Joaichm & Julian, 2010). Perfectionists need to have everything right, and as a result it can interfere with their relationships and opportunities in life. It can especially make relationship difficult with others…

INTRODUCTION Narration Perfectionism has been looked at many different ways in the past. Whether it is positive or negative perfectionism affects people in a lot of ways. Perfectionism can cause disorders like obsessive control disorder (OCD) or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) (Jancin, 2017). Description: Perfectionism has many different components that can make it up. Examples of this could be someone not feeling content with the end result of a problem solution, people avoiding to try…

Julia has two main cognitive errors that are central to her symptom presentation are her perfectionism and “should” statements. Julia’s perfectionism causes her to set extremely high expectations for herself and becoming critical of herself when she failed to meet those expectations. A clear example is Julia’s expectation to maintain a 3.6 GPA and a good running time in order to keep her scholarship, causing her to feel extremely stressed out the majority of the time (p. 275). When Julia failed…

I hate how perfect I think everything in my life has to be. I believe that all my “problems” stem from perfectionism. This behavior is important to change, solely because, the tiny details aren't important in the whole scheme of things. Caring too much about grades is probably one of the biggest things I struggle with under the “perfectionism umbrella.” I'm not even 100 percent sure why I do that to myself. I first started noticing the problem as early as middle school. My parents would…

test of the social reach model of perfectionism was released in Sep-Oct 2015 located on page 421-431, volume 41 of Aggressive Behavior. Claire Wilson, Simon C. Hunter, Susan Rasmussen, and Allison McGowen conducted this study to explore the association between different types of perfectionism and different types of recalled peer victimization. This study will use a non-clinical sample of women and men which will further examine whether reflecting and perfectionism which will conciliate between…

discipline themselves and summon the pluck to go on even when their cause seems hopeless. Also, internal to a sport is the idea of Sportsmanship. In a vigorous contest under fair conditions the losers should be gracious and the winners, magnanimous. Perfectionism is defined as the setting and maintaining of unrealistically high standards and expectations, and critical evaluations of performance (Hewitt, Newton, Flett and Callandar, 1997). It is a multidimensional construct and individuals who…

strength, perfectionism greatly prioritizes strength. Voldemort’s fascist obsession with strength may transfer over to perfectionism. Strength itself may lead someone to become a celebrity. Celebrities tend to have strong abilities, as mentioned earlier, and strength alone may give someone enough power to be considered a prominent, well-known celebrity. Perfectionism does not condone equality, just as Voldemort despises the idea of equality. Voldemort elicits an existentialist take on…

Various ways were used in describing the situation. The primary model was Perfectionism etiological model. This model involved explaining the different factor that makes the medical physician to judging that Owen was suffering from ASD (Chapter 15, 438). For instance, the specialist used an exclusive window to observe on Owen's behaviour when left alone. This approach aimed to justify that Owen only focused on one thing at the time, with other things around him not affecting his concentration.…

By now, we hope you have read our blog Branding Habits - Perfection vs. Excellence. If you haven’t, we encourage you to read it. It will help you identify pitfalls of perfection that can ruin your personal brand. Often, a perfectionist is an isolationist who surrounds themselves with people they belittle. They are not better than those people, but they try to give others the impression they are better then them. A perfectionist creates barriers that sets up irrelevant standards others cannot…