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

Lundh, Lars-Gunnar LU ; Saboonchi, Fredrik and Wångby, Margit LU (2008) In Cognitive Therapy and Research 32(3). p.333-350
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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person-oriented approach, depression, panic disorder, perfectionism, social phobia
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Cognitive Therapy and Research
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333 - 350
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10.1007/s10608-006-9109-7
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  author       = {{Lundh, Lars-Gunnar and Saboonchi, Fredrik and Wångby, Margit}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/s10608-006-9109-7}},
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