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So Perfect It's Positively Harmful?: Reflections on the Adaptiveness and Maladaptiveness of Positive and Negative Perfectionism
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Owens, R. Glynn; Slade, Peter D. – Behavior Modification, 2008
The article by Flatt and Hewitt (2006) highlights a number of important issues in the study of perfectionism and rightly urges caution against simplistic conceptualizations. Their view that the term "perfectionism" should be reserved for pathological forms of behavior is questionable, though understandable given the perspective from which they…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Psychological Patterns, Pathology, Adjustment (to Environment)