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    An Experimental Investigation of Standard Setting in Clinical Perfectionism

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    Authors
    Egan, Sarah
    Dick, M.
    Allen, Peter
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Egan, Sarah J. and Dick, Marion and Allen, Peter J. 2012. An Experimental Investigation of Standard Setting in Clinical Perfectionism. Behaviour Change. 29 (3): pp. 183-195.
    Source Title
    Behaviour Change
    DOI
    10.1017/bec.2012.16
    ISSN
    0813-4839
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24423
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study investigated if clinical perfectionism leads to resetting standards higher following both success and failure. A sample of 206 participants (74% female) completed an online experiment consisting of three sets of a nonverbal reasoning task and were asked before each set to select how many of the trials they aimed to get correct. Each set was followed by feedback regarding performance. Half of the participants received ‘difficult’ items for set 2, to allow investigation of failure effects. There was a significant relationship between clinical perfectionism and the standards that were set for the first set; however, there was no relationship with standard setting following success or failure. Instead, previous actual success or failure was the best predictor of goal setting. Consequently, clinical perfectionism was associated with setting higher standards in general, but not resetting standards higher following success or failure. Findings suggest that while clinical perfectionism plays a role in standard setting prior to performance, following performance actual success or failure becomes the best indicator. The implications of these findings for the cognitive behavioural model of clinical perfectionism are discussed.

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