Perfectionism is increasing over time: A meta-analysis of birth cohort differences from 1989 to 2016

From the 1980s onward, neoliberal governance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom has emphasized competitive individualism and people have seemingly responded, in kind, by agitating to perfect themselves and their lifestyles. In this study, the authors examine whether cultural change...

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Vydané v:Psychological bulletin Ročník 145; číslo 4; s. 410
Hlavní autori: Curran, Thomas, Hill, Andrew P
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: United States 01.04.2019
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Adult
Canada
Female
Humans
Male
Perfectionism
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
United Kingdom
United States
Young Adult
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
ISSN:1939-1455, 1939-1455
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Shrnutí:From the 1980s onward, neoliberal governance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom has emphasized competitive individualism and people have seemingly responded, in kind, by agitating to perfect themselves and their lifestyles. In this study, the authors examine whether cultural changes have coincided with an increase in multidimensional perfectionism in college students over the last 27 years. Their analyses are based on 164 samples and 41,641 American, Canadian, and British college students, who completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Hewitt & Flett, 1991) between 1989 and 2016 (70.92% female, Mage = 20.66). Cross-temporal meta-analysis revealed that levels of self-oriented perfectionism, socially prescribed perfectionism, and other-oriented perfectionism have linearly increased. These trends remained when controlling for gender and between-country differences in perfectionism scores. Overall, in order of magnitude of the observed increase, the findings indicate that recent generations of young people perceive that others are more demanding of them, are more demanding of others, and are more demanding of themselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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ISSN:1939-1455
1939-1455
DOI:10.1037/bul0000138