“…In the current study Hewitt and Flett's (1991b) conceptualization of perfectionism was used because it is well-validated and most commonly used in perfectionism research (e.g., Chang and Rand, 2000;Flett, Coulter, Hewitt, & Nepon, 2011;Flett et al, 1995;Flett, Panico, & Hewitt, 2011;Stoeber, Otto, & Dalbert, 2009). Hewitt and Flett posited that perfectionism consists of three dimensions which differ not in the behaviour per se, but in the target (self vs. others) and motivation (socially-vs. self-motivated) of the perfectionistic behaviour.…”