Positive Conceptions of Perfectionism: Approaches, Evidence, Challenges

By Joachim Stoeber, K. Otto. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Relations between multidimensional perfectionism and burnout in junior-elite male athletes. (2009, background): “There is little dispute that perfectionism has an energising effect on achievement striving and that this action may subsequently lead to successful outcomes (Flett & Hewitt, 2002; Frost et al., 1990; Stoeber & Otto, 2006 ).”
Evaluative Concerns and Personal Standards Perfectionism: Self-esteem as a Mediator and Moderator of Relations with Personal and Academic Needs and Estimated GPA (2008, background): “3 Researchers have used different components, and different combinations of components from either two or three of the primary conceptualizations to arrive at their version of the two higher order dimensions (see Stoeber and Otto 2006), as well as different labels for the primary dimensions. 32 Curr”
The dual nature of perfectionism in sports: relationships with emotion, motivation, and performance (2011, background): “Moreover, it emerged that two main dimensions of perfectionism should be differentiated (Frost, Heimberg, Holt, Mattia, & Neubauer, 1993; Stoeber & Otto, 2006).”
The Relationship Between Perfectionism, Stress and Burnout in Clinical Psychologists (2011, neutral): “There is some support for positive achievement striving being associated with positive consequences (see Stoeber & Otto, 2006 for a review); however, the majority of research has focused on the negative consequences of perfectionism (Shafran & Mansell, 2001).”
Development and Validation of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale–Brief (2016, background): “This dimension has been emphasized by most theorists on perfectionism, but has shown the smallest and least consistent association with psychopathology (DiBartolo, Li, & Frost, 2008; Frost, Heimberg, Holt, Mattia, & Neubauer, 1993; Lundh, 2004; Stoeber & Otto, 2006).”
Perfectionism and workaholism in employees: The role of work motivation (2013, background): “Because other-oriented perfectionism is not regarded a core dimension of perfectionism (Stoeber & Otto, 2006) and we aimed to investigate the role of employees’ work motivation for themselves (not for others), other-oriented perfectionism was not further regarded in this study.”
A Meta–Analytic and Conceptual Update on the Associations between Procrastination and Multidimensional Perfectionism (2017, methodology): “We used current theory and research on the dimensionality of perfectionism (Bieling, Israeli, & Antony, 2004; Sirois & Molnar, 2016a; Stoeber & Otto, 2006), and the forms of procrastination (Sirois & Pychyl, 2016b), to guide the measures chosen as indicators of perfectionistic concerns,…”
Are perfectionistic strivings in sport adaptive? A systematic review of confirmatory, contradictory, and mixed evidence. (2012, methodology): “In further examination, Stoeber and Otto (2006) found that the nine studies indicating that perfectionistic strivings were maladaptive, mixed, or undifferentiated also tended to report high correlations between perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns (.45 ≤ rs ≤ .70).”
Perfectionism and Junior Athlete Burnout: The Mediating Role of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation (2013, background): “This again supports the wider literature in this area which has typically highlighted the potential for perfectionistic strivings to be unproblematic, and even adaptive, when controlling for perfectionistic concerns (Stoeber & Otto, 2006).”
How Other-Oriented Perfectionism Differs from Self-Oriented and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (2013, background): “The present findings indicate that other-oriented perfectionism should not be considered a positive form of perfectionism, even though factor analyses typically place otheroriented perfectionism on a higher-order perfectionism factor combining aspects of perfectionism that have been associated with ”
Perfectionism and burnout in junior elite soccer players: The mediating influence of unconditional self-acceptance (2008, background): “…may serve to energise achievement striving in athletes (Flett & Hewitt, 2002; Frost et al., 1990; Hamachek, 1978; Slaney, Ashby, & Trippi, 1995; Stoeber & Otto, 2006), the prevailing view is that the act of striving for perfection does not, in itself, lead to debilitation (Flett & Hewitt,…”
Clinical and Mental Health Issues in Counseling the Gifted Individual (2015, background): “Some have argued that perfectionism is two-dimensional, with both positive and negative forms (see Stoeber & Otto, 2006 for a review).”
Perfectionism and achievement goals in athletes: Relations with approach and avoidance orientations in mastery and performance goals (2008, background): “…Becker, & Stoll, 2007)—of which striving for perfection has been found to represent the core element of the positive dimension of perfectionism (Stoeber & Otto, 2006) whereas negative reactions to imperfection which have been found to be intimately related o concern over mistakes and…”