Religious Orientation and Multidimensional Perfectionism: Relationships and Implications
β Scribed by JEFFREY S. ASHBY; JUDY HUFFMAN
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 672 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0160-7960
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β¦ Synopsis
To investigate relationships between religiosity and multidimensional perfectionism, the researchers administered measures of relipous orientation and multidimensional perfectionism to 242 undergraduate students. The researchers found that more religious students had higher scores on an adaptive dimension ofperfectionism (personal standards) but not on any of the measures of maladaptive perfectionism, suggesting that religious persons may be perfectionistic in adaptive, but not in maladaptive, ways.
In the last 20 years, a growing body of literature has suggested an association between perfectionism and religiosity (Barrow
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