Background And Objectives: Cognitive-behavioural models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) suggest that maladaptive beliefs about perfectionism play a key role in the development and maintenance of OCD. Cognitive-bias modification for interpretation bias (CBM-I) is an experimental procedure that can test this proposed causal relation.
Methods: As such, the current study investigated whether multiple CBM-I sessions administered in different contexts can modify perfectionism biases. Undergraduate students high in OCD-related perfectionism beliefs were randomly allocated to either an experimental (n = 44) or control (n = 44) training condition and completed self-report and behavioural measures of perfectionism and OCD symptoms.
Results: As predicted, relative to the control condition, participants in the experimental condition exhibited a significant decrease in perfectionism beliefs, from baseline to after one CBM-I training session, which was maintained at one-week follow-up. Contrary to hypotheses, there were no significant differences between conditions on measures of OCD symptoms and perfectionistic behaviour.
Limitations: Issues with the current study's behavioural measures may have precluded any differences between conditions.
Conclusions: Results underscore the need to further refine cognitive-behavioural models of OCD to understand the precise causal relation between beliefs and symptoms.
Objective: The adoption of Generative AI in education presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly regarding its potential to foster student dependency. However, the psychological drivers of this dependency remain unclear. This study addresses this gap by applying the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model and Basic Psychological Needs (BPN) theory to explore how specific personality traits-neuroticism, self-critical perfectionism, and impulsivity-contribute to AI dependency through needs frustration, negative academic emotions, and reinforced performance beliefs.
The study explored how filial piety and perfectionism impact life satisfaction among young adults in Malaysia and the UK, finding that different types of filial piety are linked to how individuals view perfectionism.
Positive relationships were identified between reciprocal filial piety and both types of perfectionism—adaptive and maladaptive—with adaptive perfectionism enhancing life satisfaction in Malaysia.
Conversely, authoritarian filial piety was associated with increased maladaptive perfectionism, which lowered life satisfaction in both groups, indicating the need to consider cultural and individual factors in assessing well-being.
The stigma of underperformance is widely acknowledged but seldom explored. 'Failure to fail' is a perennial problem in health professions education, and learner remediation continues to tax supervisors. In this study, we draw on Goffman's seminal work on stigma to explore supervisors' accounts of judging performance and managing remediation in specialty anesthesia training in Australia and New Zealand.
The study explores how perfectionism impacts young athletes, highlighting its positive and negative aspects in relation to achievement and anxiety.*
It involved 263 Spanish young athletes who completed perfectionism and anxiety assessments to understand how self-confidence affects their sports performance.*
Findings suggest that self-confidence serves as a buffer against the negative effects of perfectionism and cognitive anxiety, emphasizing the importance of targeted training and communication by coaches to enhance athletes' mental resilience.*
