“…Both show a strong relationship to rigid perfectionism, which is increasingly identified as a transdiagnostic process (Egan, Wade, & Shafran, 2011), as well as obsessive-compulsiveness, including anankastia/obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). These are associated with a strong need for control (ICD-11 -World Health Organization, 2019; DSM-5 -American Psychiatric Association, 2013), as well as related to rigidity/flexibility, consistently with the assumption that inflexibility in the transdiagnostic processes is essential in making them problematic and pathological (Morris & Mansell, 2018). Similar family factors have been suggested as crucial for both disorders (e.g., enmeshment and criticism), and it was suggested that they generally might represent a way of coping with problems of identity and personal control (Polivy & Herman, 2002), specifically as a way to compensate for low self-esteem (see Andreassen, 2014;Atroszko, Demetrovics, & Griffiths, 2019;.…”