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Perfectionism, Shame, and Depressive Symptoms
Author(s) -
Ashby Jeffrey S.,
Rice Kenneth G.,
Martin James L.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2006.tb00390.x
Subject(s) - shame , perfectionism (psychology) , psychology , depressive symptoms , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , path analysis (statistics) , psychiatry , social psychology , anxiety , statistics , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
The authors examined the relationship between depression, maladaptive perfectionism, and shame. Regression analyses were used to replicate a model in which maladaptive perfectionism was negatively associated with self‐esteem and positively associated with symptoms of depression, with self‐esteem mediating the effects of maladaptive perfectionism on depressive symptoms. Additional models showed that the path from maladaptive perfectionism to depression was partially mediated by shame, although these paths differed for men and women.