Perfectionistic self-presentation, coping, and affective response during laboratory performance.

Background And Objectives: The impact of trait perfectionism on coping and affective response has been well-documented in laboratory performances, and yet little is known about the role played by perfectionistic self-presentation in performances beyond the effects of trait perfectionism.

Design: We aimed to address this knowledge gap by examining the relationships between perfectionistic self-presentation, maladaptive emotion-focused coping, and affective response to laboratory problem-solving tasks.

Methods: A group of 130 undergraduates attempted challenging, time-limited arithmetic and anagram tasks.

Dynamic-relational group treatment for perfectionism: Informant ratings of patient change.

Although now there is accumulating research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy for perfectionism, this research has been based almost exclusively on self-report data. In this article, we describe analyses from the University of British Columbia Perfectionism Treatment Study assessing close other informant ratings of change in perfectionism traits and perfectionistic self-presentation. A total of 61 close other informants of patients who participated in a 10-week dynamic-relational treatment for perfectionism completed measures of patient trait and self-presentational facets of perfectionism at pretreatment, at posttreatment, and at a 4-month follow-up.

Psychodynamic/interpersonal group psychotherapy for perfectionism: Evaluating the effectiveness of a short-term treatment.

This study sought to determine whether clinically significant improvement could be obtained using a psychodynamic/interpersonal group treatment based on a comprehensive conceptualization of perfectionism. A sample of 71 community-recruited perfectionistic individuals participated in the University of British Columbia Perfectionism Treatment Study. Eighteen of these participants were initially nonrandomly assigned to a waitlist control condition.