ERIC Number: EJ746355
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Oct
Pages: 11
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Perfectionism, Stress, and Social (Dis)Connection: A Short-Term Study of Hopelessness, Depression, and Academic Adjustment among Honors Students
Rice, Kenneth G.; Leever, Brooke A.; Christopher, John; Porter, J. Diane
Journal of Counseling Psychology, v53 n4 p524-534 Oct 2006
This study tested models of perfectionism predicting psychological distress and academic adjustment and moderators and mediators of those associations in 2 successive cohorts of high-achieving university honors students (N = 499). Participants completed measures earl and late in the semester. Adaptive (high standards) and maladaptive (self-critical perceptions of inadequacy in meeting performance expectations) dimensions of perfectionism were found to be significantly associated, in generally expected directions, with concurrent and prospective perceived stress, social connectedness, depression, hopelessness, and perceived academic adjustment. However, some perfectionism effects were reduced when earlier psychological distress and adjustment were controlled in analyses predicting later distress and adjustment. Several effects were moderated and at least partially mediated by perceived stress and social connection. The results suggest several counseling implications for high-achieving, perfectionistic students.
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Student Adjustment, Models, College Students, Academically Gifted, High Achievement, Emotional Problems, Psychological Patterns, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Social Isolation, Counseling
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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