The relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depressive symptoms: The mediating role of rumination

Harris, Patrick; Pepper, Carolyn M.; Maack, Danielle J.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2007.07.011

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“…Maladaptive perfectionism is a personality construct characterized by a persistent striving for unrealistic personal standards, an excessive concern over mistakes, and an attentional bias for failure Lo and Abbott, 2013). Excessive perfectionistic thinking is consistently associated with chronic stress (Ashby et al, 2012;Flett et al, 1998;Pirbaglou et al, 2013), greater worry and rumination levels (Harris et al, 2008), and psychiatric diagnoses (Antony et al, 1998;Chang and Sanna, 2001;Saboonchi and Lundh, 1997).…”

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Heart rate variability is enhanced in controls but not maladaptive perfectionists during brief mindfulness meditation following stress-induction: A stratified-randomized trial

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Katz

Fashler

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Heart rate variability (HRV) is a vagal nerve-mediated biomarker of cardiac function used to investigate chronic illness, psychopathology, stress and, more recently, attention-regulation processes such as meditation. This study investigated HRV in relation to maladaptive perfectionism, a stress-related personality factor, and mindfulness meditation, a stress coping practice expected to elevate HRV, and thereby promote relaxation. Maladaptive perfectionists (n = 21) and Controls (n = 39) were exposed to a lab-based assessment in which HRV was measured during (1) a 5-minute baseline resting phase, (2) a 5-minute cognitive stress-induction phase, and (3) a post-stress phase. In the post-stress phase, participants were randomly assigned to a 10-minute audioinstructed mindfulness meditation condition or a 10-minute rest condition with audio-description of mindfulness meditation. Analyses revealed a significant elevation in HRV during meditation for Controls but not for Perfectionists. These results suggest that mindfulness meditation promotes relaxation following cognitive stress and that the perfectionist personality hinders relaxation possibly because of decreased cardiac vagal tone. The results are discussed in the context of developing psychophysiological models to advance therapeutic interventions for distressed populations.

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Heart rate variability is enhanced in controls but not maladaptive perfectionists during brief mindfulness meditation following stress-induction: A stratified-randomized trial

Azam

Katz

Fashler

et al. 2015

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…However, no complementary association was found between perfectionistic strivings and concrete-experiential. Using multidimensional perfectionism scale (MPS), Harris et al (20) found that ''brooding'' aspect of rumination, which is a passive, cyclical focus on negative emotions, fully mediates the relation between perfectionism and depressive symptoms. Recently this mediation model has been found in early adolescents (21).…”

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The Relationship Between Positive and Negative Perfectionism and Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Academic Rumination

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Rezaei

Rasuli

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Jentashapir J Health Res

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Background: Perfectionism as a personality trait can lead to students depression. It seems that academic rumination in the relationship between perfectionism and depression play a role of mediator in academic settings. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of positive and negative perfectionism with depressive symptoms mediated by academic rumination. Patients and Methods:The sample comprised 368 undergraduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in 2011 -2012 academic year. They were randomly selected by multi-stage sampling method. The data were collected by 3 measures of positive and negative perfectionism scale (PANPS), beck depression inventory-II (BDI-II), and academic rumination inventory (ARI). Results: Preliminary analyses revealed that positive perfectionism was negatively correlated with both depressive symptoms and academic rumination and had a significant negative correlation with negative perfectionism. Also, negative perfectionism was positively correlated with both depressive symptoms and academic rumination. Furthermore, academic rumination was positively correlated with depressive symptoms. The results of path analysis showed academic rumination mediated the relationship of positive and negative perfectionism with depressive symptoms. Conclusions: According to this model, students with high score on negative perfectionism by mechanism of academic rumination report higher depressive symptoms, however students with high score on positive perfectionism report lower depressive symptoms through reduction of ruminative thoughts.

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“…In line with this suggestion, Marroquin, Fontes, Scilletta, and Miranda (2010 ) showed that Refl ection, in contrast to Brooding, was correlated strongly with active coping and correlated weakly with passive coping. Also, Brooding is generally related to pathological cognitive processes (e.g., attentional bias, overgeneral autobiographical memory, and concern over mistakes in perfectionism), whereas Refl ection typically is not (e.g., Joormann, et al ., 2006 ;Harris, Pepper, & Maack, 2008 ;Debeer, Hermans, & Raes, 2009 ). These fi ndings indicate that Brooding and Refl ection assess related, but relatively distinct, subcomponents of depressive rumination.…”

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“…On the other hand, previous studies showed mixed fi ndings about the relationship between Refl ection and previous depression. Refl ection is related more weakly to pathological cognitive and behavioral factors than Brooding (e.g., Joormann, et al ., 2006 ;Harris, et al ., 2008 ;Debeer, et al ., 2009 ;Marroquin, et al ., 2010 ), so it was expected that only Brooding would be related to previous experiences of depressive episodes, or at least Refl ection would be related less strongly with those experiences than Brooding. One issue that previous 6 One of the purposes of this study was to replicate the fi ndings regarding the association between RRS subscales and past major depression obtained in previous studies.…”

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Depressive Rumination and Past Depression in Japanese University Students: Comparison of Brooding and Reflection

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Summary .-The Ruminative Responses Scale, a measure of depressive rumination, contains two subscales: Brooding and Refl ection. Treynor, Gonzalez, and NolenHoeksema (2003) proposed that Brooding is maladaptive and Refl ection is adaptive. This article examined the relationships among Brooding, Refl ection, and previous depression in two samples of Japanese undergraduates, who were non-depressed at the time of their participation. Based on answers to a self-report measure, participants were divided into a formerly depressed group, who had experienced an episode that met the criteria for major depression, and a never-depressed group. Logistic regression analyses were conducted with Brooding, Refl ection, and current depression as the independent variables and past depression as the dependent variable. Brooding had consistent positive associations with past depression. The relationship between Refl ection and past depression was not signifi cant for one sample, but was statistically signifi cant and positive in the second sample. In the second sample, Brooding and Refl ection both were related with past depression after controlling for worry.

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The relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depressive symptoms: The mediating role of rumination

Cited by 87 publications

References 32 publications

Heart rate variability is enhanced in controls but not maladaptive perfectionists during brief mindfulness meditation following stress-induction: A stratified-randomized trial

Heart rate variability is enhanced in controls but not maladaptive perfectionists during brief mindfulness meditation following stress-induction: A stratified-randomized trial

The Relationship Between Positive and Negative Perfectionism and Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Academic Rumination

Depressive Rumination and Past Depression in Japanese University Students: Comparison of Brooding and Reflection

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