1. Perfectionism and aggression following unintentional, ambiguous, and intentional provocation
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Stoeber, Joachim and Hadjivassiliou, Anna
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Psychological research ,Perfectionism (Personality trait) -- Analysis -- Social aspects -- Forecasts and trends ,Market trend/market analysis ,Psychology and mental health - Abstract
The social disconnection model of perfectionism posits that perfectionism is positively related to various indicators of social disconnection including hostility and aggression. Recent findings, however, indicate that only other-oriented and socially-prescribed perfectionism are positively related to aggression, not self-oriented perfectionism. The present study (N = 271) further examined the perfectionism-aggression relationships using social vignettes differentiating aggression following unintentional, ambiguous, and intentional provocation. Results showed that - when the overlap between the perfectionism dimensions was controlled - only other-oriented perfectionism showed positive relationships with aggression across provocation situations. In contrast, socially prescribed perfectionism showed a positive relationship only with aggression following unintentional provocation, and self-oriented perfectionism showed a negative relationship. The findings suggest that, whereas people high in self-oriented perfectionism tend to be unaggressive, people high in other-oriented perfectionism have a general tendency toward aggression, and people high in socially prescribed perfectionism show a hostile attribution bias., Author(s): Joachim Stoeber [sup.1] , Anna Hadjivassiliou [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.9759.2, 0000 0001 2232 2818, School of Psychology, University of Kent, , CT2 7NP, Canterbury, Kent, UK Perfectionism is [...]
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- 2022
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