Original ResearchCan cognitive restructuring reduce the disruption associated with perfectionistic concerns?*
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2021, Personality and Individual DifferencesCitation Excerpt :Finally, few lab-based studies utilized a dedicated measure of state anxiety. Researchers have examined closely related constructs, such as negative affect, felt tension, or degree of rest/unrest, without explicitly assessing change in state anxiety (e.g., Altstötter-Gleich et al., 2012; DiBartolo et al., 2001; Zureck et al., 2014). In the current study, we investigate the degree to which perfectionist dimensions are associated with short-term change in anxiety expected to be elicited by a laboratory procedure designed to induce social-evaluative stress.
An experimental manipulation of maternal perfectionistic anxious rearing behaviors with anxious and non-anxious children
2013, Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyCitation Excerpt :Studies have shown that tasks with an evaluative element are more salient to highly perfectionistic individuals. These individuals are more sensitive to evaluative threat in terms of distress and anxiety and are more likely to interpret these situations as threatening (DiBartolo et al., 2001; Frost & Marten, 1990). Frost and DiBartolo (2002) reviewed the manner in which perfectionists respond to tasks involving evaluative threat, noting that “perfectionists are likely to believe that any performance that is less than perfect is equivalent to failure ” (p. 351).
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2007, Behaviour Research and TherapyCitation Excerpt :Furthermore, a case-series study found that six out of nine participants showed some improvement in their perfectionism (Glover, Shafran, Brown, & Fairburn, in press). These case studies contribute to the literature on the treatment of perfectionism that includes studies of emotion focused therapy (Greenberg & Bolger, 2001), psychodynamic therapy (e.g., Blatt, 1992), and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) (e.g., Ferguson & Rodway, 1994; DiBartolo, Frost, Dixon, & Almodovar, 2001) including cognitive-behavioural self-help (Antony & Swinson, 1998). In one of the first randomised controlled trials of treatment for perfectionism, Pleva and Wade (in press) demonstrated that eight sessions of guided self-help, using the cognitive-behavioural manual by Antony and Swinson (1998), was effective in reducing perfectionism in a non-clinical sample.
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Portions of this manuscript were presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Miami Beach, FL, November 1997, as well as the Developments in Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Anxiety Disorders Conference, Assumption College, Worcester, MA, October 1998.