Perfectionism in context: Authoritarian influence of parenting, birth order, cultural values and their associations with psychological distress

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113372

Brenna K. Borgstede, Zornitsa Kalibatseva, Helana Girgis

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Abstract

Perfectionism is when an individual sets unrealistic standards for themselves, and is more often associated with adverse outcomes such as anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and suicide ideation (Flett & Hewitt, 2020). For this reason, a substantial body of research has examined factors related to the parent-child relationship, such as authoritarian parenting, as it affects outcomes related to perfectionism. In this study, a total of 158 college students (M = 21.47) responded to measures of perceived maternal and paternal authoritarian parenting, sibling order, and individualistic and collectivistic values related to Hewitt and Flett's (1991) three types of perfectionism: self-oriented perfectionism (SOP), socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP), and other-oriented perfectionism (OOP), and whether the psychological distress moderated the relationship between them. Linear regressions revealed that collectivism, individualism, and being the oldest sibling was related to SOP, whereas maternal authoritarianism was related to SPP. Collectivism was negatively related to SPP and individualism negatively related to OOP. Psychological distress moderated the relationship between maternal authoritarian parenting and SPP. Finally, SPP and paternal authoritarian were related to psychological distress. Theoretical and clinical implications for the interplay between the family context and perfectionism are discussed.

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背景下的完美主义：父母的权威影响、出生顺序、文化价值观及其与心理困扰的关系

完美主义指的是一个人为自己设定不切实际的标准，通常与焦虑、抑郁、人格障碍和自杀意念等不良后果有关。休伊特,2020)。出于这个原因，大量的研究已经调查了与亲子关系相关的因素，比如权威型父母，因为它会影响与完美主义相关的结果。在本研究中，158名大学生（M = 21.47）对Hewitt和Flett（1991）提出的自我导向型完美主义（SOP）、社会规定型完美主义（SPP）和他者导向型完美主义（OOP）三种完美主义的父母专制教养、兄弟姐妹秩序、个人主义和集体主义价值观的感知进行了测试，并考察了心理困扰是否会调节三者之间的关系。线性回归结果显示，集体主义、个人主义和兄弟姐妹中最年长的子女与SOP相关，母亲权威主义与SPP相关，集体主义与SPP负相关，个人主义与OOP负相关。心理困扰对母亲专制型教养方式对SPP的影响有调节作用，SPP和父亲专制型教养方式对心理困扰有影响。理论和临床意义的家庭背景和完美主义之间的相互作用进行了讨论。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.