title: Predicting perfectionism: applying tests of rigidity.
abstract: Adult college students (N = 108; M age = 24.3 years old) completed multidimensional measures of perfectionism (self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially-prescribed perfectionism) and behavioral rigidity (attitudinal flexibility, psychomotor speed, and motor-cognitive rigidity). Attitudinal flexibility was negatively related to all three forms of perfectionism, and motor-cognitive rigidity was positively related to self-oriented perfectionism. Multiple regression analyses indicated that attitude flexibility and motor-cognitive rigidity were significant predictors of self-oriented perfectionism, while attitude-flexibility alone was the significant predictor of socially-prescribed perfectionism. No measure of rigidity was a significant predictor of other-oriented perfectionism. Thus, dimensions of perfectionism may be predicted with different measures of cognitive-behavioral rigidity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ferrari
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Mautz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001290:Attitude; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000145:classification; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012718:Set, Psychology; D012927:Social Control, Informal