TY - JOUR
AU1 - Dunkley, David
AU2 - Blankstein, Kirk
AB - University students (131 women, 102 men) completed measures of perfectionism, self-criticism, autonomy, coping (emotion-oriented, task-oriented, and avoidance-oriented), hassles (academic, social, and general), and distress (current depression, anger, and psychosomatic distress). Zeroth-order correlations distinguished the self-critical perfectionism variables (i.e., socially prescribed perfectionism, self-criticism, and the solitude subscale of autonomy) from self-oriented perfectionism. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess the measurement model and showed that the self-critical perfectionism variables load strongly on one factor. Structural equation modeling results indicated that self-critical perfectionists' high levels of distress and daily hassles might be fully explained by the mediating role of maladaptive coping. The results support a cognitive theory of psychological stress and coping and illustrate how coping strategies associated with self-critical perfectionism can have important consequences for the experience of both distress and hassles.
TI - Self-Critical Perfectionism, Coping, Hassles, and Current Distress: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
JF - Cognitive Therapy and Research
DO - 10.1023/A:1005543529245
DA - 2004-10-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/self-critical-perfectionism-coping-hassles-and-current-distress-a-fdINTwo9nq
SP - 713
EP - 730
VL - 24
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -