When perfectionists adopt health behaviors: perfectionism and self-efficacy as determinants of health behavior, anxiety and depression.

Background: The study aims to show interrelations between self-efficacy, perfectionism (adaptive and maladaptive), health behavior, and mental health outcomes such as anxiety and depression as an exponent in maintaining optimal health. In the analyses, we focused on one category of health behaviors - preventive practices.: participants and procedure: Of the gathered data, 295 complete datasets were analyzed (age: = 28.

Being others-oriented during the pandemic: Individual differences in the sense of responsibility for collective health as a robust predictor of compliance with the COVID-19 containing measures.

This study aimed to identify and examine a context-specific personality variable that would allow for robust prediction of compliance with COVID-19 pandemic measures. Therefore, we analyzed the specificity of the current pandemic and proposed a concept and a measure of individual differences in the sense of responsibility for collective health (SRCH). This concept reflects individual's others-oriented approach to the pandemic.