A Pilot Study Exploring the Relationship between Perfectionism and Anxiety in an Urban Middle School

Autor/inn/en	Tyler, Jeremy M.; Panichelli-Mindel, Susan M.; Sperrazza, Cristina; Levitt, Melanie F.
Titel	A Pilot Study Exploring the Relationship between Perfectionism and Anxiety in an Urban Middle School
Quelle	In: Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 37 (2019) 8, S.989-1001 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0734-2829
DOI	10.1177/0734282918819949
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Urban Schools; Middle School Students; Correlation; Anxiety; Early Adolescents; Bilingual Schools; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Social Influences; Hispanic American Students; Self Concept; Expectation; Standards; Puerto Ricans + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Korrelation; Angst; Bilingual scholl; Bilinguale Schule; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Sozialer Einfluss; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Studentin; Selbstkonzept; Expectancy; Erwartung; Standard; Puerto Rican; Puerto-Ricaner
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to identify whether maladaptive perfectionism predicts elevated symptoms of anxiety in a sample of primarily Puerto Rican middle school students. Participants included students (N = 128) from Grades 6 through 8 (48% male; average age = 11.9 years) who attended an urban, bilingual, public, charter school. Results suggested both general and specific links between maladaptive perfectionism and anxiety disorder symptoms. More specifically, socially-prescribed perfectionism (SPP) uniquely predicted symptoms of panic whereas self oriented perfectionism (SOP) uniquely predicted symptoms of social anxiety across the sample. These findings provide support for the previously established connection between various anxiety symptoms and perfectionism and demonstrate that such a connection exists in Latino adolescents. Given the strong relationship between different types of maladaptive perfectionism and anxiety, theoretical and cultural considerations should be considered to help better understand the nature of how perfectionism is linked to anxiety disorder manifestations. Future studies implementing more control and longitudinal designs may be useful to better understand how perfectionism may function as a transdiagnostic mechanism in the development and maintenance of anxiety in adolescents, and specifically those who identify as Latino. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01