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- Recent research suggests that while perfectionism is generally seen as harmful to mental health, the tendency to set high personal standards is only weakly linked to lower levels of depression.
- The study analyzed subjects based on their attachment styles and perfectionism, discovering a group with secure attachment styles who were psychologically healthy and another with insecure styles who were not.
- The findings indicate that having high personal standards alone doesn’t guarantee good psychological health; it interacts with issues like having a preoccupation with mistakes and self-doubt, which also play a significant role.
Article Abstract
Perfectionism is usually reported to have adverse affects on psychological health, but recent multidimensional research indicated that a "tendency to set high personal standards" is weakly correlated with reduced depressiveness. The present study categorized subjects using a cluster analysis with factors closely related to psychological health such as adult attachment styles and perfectionism, and examined each factor's contributions to psychological health. Among subjects with high personal standards, the study found a group with a secure attachment style who are psychologically adaptive and another group with a non-secure attachment style who are maladaptive. The results suggest that setting high personal standards by itself does not promote psychological health, but rather that there is an interaction with other factors such as preoccupation with one's mistakes and doubting one's own actions which also influence psychological health.
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