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The Role of Perfectionism in Daily Self‐Esteem, Attachment, and Negative Affect
Author(s) -
Dunkley David M.,
Berg JodyLynn,
Zuroff David C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00741.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perfectionism (psychology) , self esteem , affect (linguistics) , closeness , trait , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , communication , computer science , programming language
This study of university students (64 men, 99 women) examined the role of self‐critical ( SC ) and personal standards ( PS ) higher order dimensions of perfectionism in daily self‐esteem, attachment, and negative affect. Participants completed questionnaires at the end of the day for 7 consecutive days. Trait and situational influences were found in the daily reports of self‐esteem, attachment, and affect. In contrast to PS perfectionism, SC perfectionism was strongly related to aggregated daily reports of low self‐esteem, attachment fears (fear of closeness, fear of dependency, fear of loss), and negative affect as well as instability indexes of daily self‐esteem, attachment, and negative affect. Multilevel modeling indicated that both SC and PS perfectionists were emotionally reactive to decreases in self‐esteem, whereas only SC perfectionists were emotionally reactive to increases in fear of closeness with others. These results demonstrate the dispositional and moderating influences of perfectionism dimensions on daily self‐esteem, attachment, and negative affect.