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Multidimensional perfectionism and ruminative brooding in current dysphoria, anxiety, worry, and anger

Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy, ISSN: 0894-9085, Vol: 26, Issue: 3, Page: 168-193
2008
  • 44
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 99
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    44
    • Citation Indexes
      44
  • Captures
    99
  • Mentions
    1
    • News Mentions
      1
      • News
        1

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The current study examined links between dimensions of perfectionism, ruminative and distractive coping, and multiple measures of current distress (dysphoria, anxiety, worry, and anger) in 205 university students. A main goal was to test the hypothesis that perfectionism is related to a new measure of the critical maladaptive component of rumination (i.e., ruminative brooding) that is not confounded with symptoms and confirm that both constructs function as non-specific vulnerabilities for emotional distress. Our study revealed numerous significant findings, including: (1) socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP) was the dimension most strongly related to brooding in response to depression and anxiety; (2) SPP, self-oriented perfectionism (SOP), and brooding predicted various indices of distress; (3) SOP predicted anxiety and worry in women, and it predicted dysphoria and anger in men; (4) despite the strong associations between ruminative brooding and distress, perfectionism still accounted for unique variance in distress, and vice-versa. Implications for the issue of the adaptiveness versus maladaptiveness of perfectionism and for counseling perfectionists who fall into the "brooding trap" are discussed. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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