Socially prescribed perfectionism and affectivity in Spanish child population

María Vicent,José Manuel García-Fernández,Ricardo Sanmartín,Lucía Granados Alós,Cándido Inglés,Carolina Gonzálvez

doi:10.1989/ejihpe.v7i1.192

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and affect during childhood. A sample of 804 students aged between 8 and 11 years old (M=9.57; SD=1.12), as well as the SPP subscale of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale and the 10-Item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children, which assess the Positive Affect (PA) and Negative Affect (NA), were employed. The mean scores in PA and NA between students with high and low levels of SPP were compared. Students with high SPP significantly scored higher than their peers with low SPP, both in PA and NA. The effect magnitude of the found differences was small. Accordingly, the results of the logistic regression analysis revealed that both affective dimensions predicted positively and significantly high scores in SPP with Odd Ratio values of 1.08 and 1.05, respectively, for PA and NA. The results do not match the previous empirical evidence in adult and adolescent population. This implies that the consequences of considering the environment as demanding of perfectionism does not have the same consequences in childhood than in later ages.

Highlights

El Perfeccionismo Socialmente Prescrito (PSP) engloba la creencia de que las personas que nos rodean esperan que nuestro desempeño sea perfecto, siendo altamente duras y críticas con los errores cometidos (Hewitt y Flett, 2004)
This study aims to analyze the relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and affect during childhood
PSP, afecto positivo y afecto negativo El Afecto Positivo (AP; i.e., dimensión de emocionalidad positiva, energética, de afiliación y de dominio de un individuo) y Negativo (AN; dimensión de emocionalidad negativa, caracterizada por estados de ánimo como la aversión, ira, disgusto, nerviosismo, etc.) se consideran indicadores de distintas psicopatologías (e.g., Anderson y Hope, 2008)

Summary

VICENT et al Perfeccionismo socialmente prescrito y afectividad

El Perfeccionismo Socialmente Prescrito (PSP) engloba la creencia de que las personas que nos rodean esperan que nuestro desempeño sea perfecto, siendo altamente duras y críticas con los errores cometidos (Hewitt y Flett, 2004). En consonancia con los estudios previos que han encontrado que el PSP se asocia significativamente y de forma positiva con el AN (Downey y Chang, 2007; Downey et al, 2014; Dunkley et al, 2006; Flett et al, 2009; Frost et al, 1993; Ho et al, 2015; Molnar et al, 2006; Short y Mazmanian, 2013; Stoeber y Corr, 2015, 2016), se espera que los alumnos con alto PSP puntúen significativamente más alto en AN que sus iguales con bajo PSP, así como que el AN sea un predictor significativo y positivo de altos niveles en PSP (Hipótesis 2).

Afecto Negativo

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