The adverse influence of narcissistic injury and perfectionism on college students’ institutional attachment

Mann, Michael P.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2003.07.001

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“…Diagnostically, perfectionism is associated with OCD (Egan et al, 2011;Glickauf-Hughes and Wells, 1995), narcissism (Mann, 2004) and depression (Ashby et al, 2006;Jahromi et al, 2012;Malinowski, Veselka & Atkinson, 2017;Smith, Saklofske, Yan & Sherry, 2017).…”

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A clinical interpretation of shame regulation in maladaptive perfectionism

Schalkwijk

Someren

Wassing

2019

Personality and Individual Differences

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Maladaptive perfectionism, a transdiagnostic personality trait, is associated with depression.Shame has been associated with depressive disorders and to negatively impact its treatment.Interestingly, maladaptive perfec-tionism and maladaptive shame regulation strategies might be both expressions of an internalizing personality style. We applied forward and backward stepwise linear regression modeling to explain maladaptive perfectionism by association of shame coping styles in a highly powered cross-sectional study of 1436 participants.Maladaptive perfectionism was shown to have significant positive associations with the two internalizing coping styles attacking the self, and withdrawing, and negative associations with adaptive coping. Furthermore, a significant positive interaction effect was shown for the two internalizing coping styles.Our research shows that participants who adopt maladaptive perfectionism, internalize the pain of shame. Clinically, this is especially relevant during treatment: the patterns of maladaptive perfectionism must come into the open, the client feels exposed and, consistent with his shame regulation style, shame grows. Our research might account for the negative responsiveness of perfectionism to brief therapies for depression: there may not be enough focus on and time for working through the evoked shame.

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A clinical interpretation of shame regulation in maladaptive perfectionism

Schalkwijk

Someren

Wassing

2019

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…The positive correlation between perfectionism and narcissism was also shown by empirical findings (Freudenstein et al, ). In particular, according to available data (Mann, ), self‐criticism and shame‐proneness are the features that link narcissism and perfectionism: for the narcissistic individual the self‐criticism and shame experience can be intolerable in the context of failed perfectionism. Feeling shame toward the self leads to a lower level of self‐esteem and self‐efficacy making adjustment to new environmental demands more problematic.…”

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The Italian version of Perfectionistic Self‐Presentation Scale: psychometric proprieties and its associations with pathological narcissism and adult attachment in an adult non clinical sample

Borroni

Bortolla

Lombardi

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Personality & Mental Health

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The present study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale (PSPS) in 447 nonclinical adult volunteers (63.5% female; mean age = 36.89 years). In our sample the PSPS total score and PSPS scales showed adequate internal consistency reliability estimates, and both the dimensionality analyses and WLSMV exploratory structural model supported the original three factors structure for PSPS items. We found a significant correlation between perfectionistic self-presentation and pathological narcissism and a significant role of attachment patterns in explaining the differences between these two constructs. Perfectionistic participants were characterized by avoidant and anxiety attachment styles, while narcissistic participants reported an anxiety style only. As a whole, our findings support the hypothesis that the Italian version of the PSPS is a reliable measure of perfectionist self-presentation in an adult community sample. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Il a effectivement été vérifié empiriquement que le perfectionnisme dysfonctionnel (perfectionnisme prescrit par autrui), en tant que style de personnalité défensif, est associé à la blessure narcissique (Mann, 2004) et à sa manifestation, soit une estime de soi fragile (Ashby & Rice, 2002;Rice, Ashby, & Slaney, 1998;Stumpf & Parker, 2000) et qu'il prédispose la personne concernée à ressentir des émotions pénibles (voir Tangney, 2002 pour une recension). Selon Tangney (2002), la honte et la culpabilité émanent de la conscience de soi.…”

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