@misc{10481/61474,
year = {2019},
month = {9},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61474},
abstract = {Objective: Perfectionism is one of the variables related to the correct emotional development or with the appearance of clinical symptomatology in childhood. A study has been designed to evaluate the differential effect that each dimension of perfectionism (external pressure, self-exigency, and negative self-evaluation) has in a Spanish children sample of general population for each of the following clinical aspects: irritability, worthlessness feelings, thinking problems, and psychophysiological symptoms.
Method: By a random cluster sampling, a total of 2,636 children from 8 to 12 years (M = 9.9, SD = 1.2; 51.3% boys) took part in this research. A serial multiple mediators model was used to check the relation between external pressure over the clinical symptoms through self-exigency and negative-self-evaluation.
Results: The results have shown a predictive effect of external pressure over a great variety of clinical symptomatology (irritability, worthlessness, thinking problems, and psychophysiological symptoms), a relation mediated by self-exigency and negative self-evaluation. These relations suggest that external pressure and negative self-evaluation are maladaptive dimensions as they predict the appearance of symptomatology, being the level of self-exigency a protective dimension and favoring the child’s positive development.
Conclusions: In consequence, these results point to the importance of the study of these variables that can generate difficulties in childhood in order to improve children’s quality of life and their correct development.},
organization = {This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy
and Competitiveness [Ref. PSI2017-85724-P and Ref. PSI2017-
83966-R (MINECO/AEI/FEDER/UE)].},
publisher = {Frontiers in Media},
keywords = {Perfectionism},
keywords = {Clinical symptomatology},
keywords = {Mediation analyses},
keywords = {Childhood perfectionism inventory},
title = {Relationship Between Child Perfectionism and Psychological Disorders},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01855},
author = {Lozano Fernández, Luis Manuel and Valor Segura, Inmaculada and García-Cueto, Eduardo and Pedrosa, Ignacio and Llanos, Alexia and Lozano, Luis},
}