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Multidimensional Perfectionism and Ruminative Brooding in Current Dysphoria, Anxiety, Worry, and Anger

Auteurs: Kirk R. Blankstein, Crystal Hillis Lumley

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy | Uitgave 3/2008

Abstract

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.

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Perfectionism and rumination were reported to be unrelated to Anhedonia. Anhedonia reflects loss of interest and an absence of positive affect presumed to be specific to depression. However, in our own research with large samples (e.g., Dunkley et al. 2006) SPP is significantly related to Anhedonia. Armey et al. (2003) reported a strong correlation between brooding and Anhedonia.

To our knowledge, relations between the Hewitt and Flett (1991a) MPS and Terry-Short et al. (1995) measure have not been reported; however, we expect a strong correlation between SPP and “negative” perfectionism. Further, the Terry-Short et al. (1995) measure appears to have questionable factor structure and requires revision (Hasse and Prapavessis 2004).

A recently developed measure of perfectionism (Hill et al. 2004) includes a rumination subscale as a component of perfectionism. However, this subscale taps rumination about current, past, and anticipated performance rather than rumination about distress.

Details of the factor analyses and construct validity can be obtained from the first author.

Reliabilities for rumination, brooding, and distraction are considerably higher when subscales specific to dysphoria and anxiety/worry are combined. For example, the reliabilities for a combined brooding scale became 0.81 and 0.85 for the women and men, respectively.

Tables of inter-correlations among all variables, including for the total sample, are available from the first author. Details of all other analyses not fully reported here are also available.

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Titel: Multidimensional Perfectionism and Ruminative Brooding in Current Dysphoria, Anxiety, Worry, and Anger
Auteurs: Kirk R. Blankstein
Crystal Hillis Lumley
Publicatiedatum: 01-09-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy / Uitgave 3/2008
Print ISSN: 0894-9085
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6563
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-007-0068-z

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