Specific perfectionism components versus self-criticism in predicting maladjustment

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Perfectionism, Implicit Theories of Intelligence, and Taiwanese Eighth-Grade Students’ Academic Engagement (2011, background): “Dunkley, Zuroff, and Blankstein (2006) found that perfectionism constructs explained 14% of the variance in Canadian college students’ positive affect and 24% of the variance in negative affect.”
Adolescent Emotional Development and the Emergence of Depressive Disorders: Shame, self-criticism, and self-compassion in adolescence (2008, background): “Dunkley et al. (2006a, 2006b) found that whilst some perfectionism was associated with personal standards, other forms of perfectionism were associated with evaluative concerns, especially being judged negatively by others.”
Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach (2006, background): “Dunkley et al. (2006) found that it is the evaluative concerns dimension that is linked to various psychopathological indicators.”
A review of client self-criticism in psychotherapy (2013, background): “…findings across the psychopathology and psychotherapy literature on self-criticism, which suggest that self-critical clients tend to experience a sense of defeat, inferiority, and selfblame around stress, failure, and negative emotion (Dunkley et al., 2006; Flett, Hewett, Blankstein, & Gray, 1998).”