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Social phobia and perfectionism

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In this article, the authors compared 61 patients with social phobia and 39 community volunteers with no anxiety disorder on the Frost, Marten, Lahart and Rosenblate's (1990) Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS).
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1996-09-01. It has received 192 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social anxiety & Perfectionism (psychology).

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Clinical perfectionism: a cognitive-behavioural analysis.

TL;DR: The characteristics of clinical perfectionism are reviewed and a new definition of the phenomenon is proposed, suggesting that people with perfectionism react to failure to meet their standards with self-criticism and if they do meet their Standards, the standards are re-evaluated as being insufficiently demanding.
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Perfectionism as a transdiagnostic process: A clinical review

TL;DR: Data is presented that shows perfectionism increases vulnerability for eating disorders, and that it maintains obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety and depression as it predicts treatment outcome in these disorders.
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Perfectionism and psychopathology: a review of research and treatment.

TL;DR: The evidence reviewed indicates that high personal standards are specifically elevated in patients with eating disorders and beliefs about others' high standards for the self are associated with a broad range of psychopathology.
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Perfectionism and eating disorders: current status and future directions.

TL;DR: The literature examining the relation between perfectionism and eating disorders was reviewed and content and methodological comparisons were made with the perfectionism literature in anxiety disorders and depressive disorders.
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An inventory for measuring depression

TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.

Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

TL;DR: The STAI as mentioned in this paper is an indicator of two types of anxiety, the state and trait anxiety, and measure the severity of the overall anxiety level, which is appropriate for those who have at least a sixth grade reading level.
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The dimensions of perfectionism.

TL;DR: In this article, a multidimensional measure was developed and several hypotheses regarding the nature of perfectionism were tested in four separate studies; the major dimension of this measure was excessive concern over making mistakes, and five other dimensions were identified, including high personal standards, the perception of high parental expectations, the perceived negative parent criticism, doubting of the quality of one's actions, and a preference for order and organization.
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