title: Perfectionism and binge drinking in Canadian students making the transition to university.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In September 2005, the authors explored the relationship between perfectionism and binge drinking in a sample of first-year college students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors recruited 207 first-year college students (76 men, 131 women) to complete the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS) and Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (F-MPS).
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors divided participants into 3 groups on the basis of frequency of binge drinking and conducted multivariate analyses of variance to compare the binge drinking groups on the 3 MPS subscales and the 5 F-MPS subscales.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The group with 2 or more binge drinking episodes in the past 2 weeks had higher levels of parental criticism and lower levels of self-oriented perfectionism, but they did not have lower scores on a measure of personal standards.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings suggest that certain perfectionists binge drink in response to harsh parental treatment and that, at least initially, the pursuit of extreme standards of personal perfection is incompatible with binge drinking. The authors discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. gflett@yorku.ca
authors.forename: Gordon L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Flett
authors.forename: Abby
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: Anne-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Wall
authors.forename: Paul L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Hewitt
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wekerle
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Azzi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010551:Personality; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult