A critical examination of the construct of perfectionism and its relationship to mental health in Asian and African Americans using a cross-cultural framework

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 139-152

  DiBartolo, Patricia Marten ^a   Rendón, María José ^a,b  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Ethnicity; Mental health; Perfectionism

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN; BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CROSS CULTURAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PERFECTIONISM; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84857972780     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2011.09.007     Document Type: Review

References (88)

1. Accordino D.B., Accordino M.P., Slaney R.B. An investigation of perfectionism, mental health, achievement, and achievement motivation in adolescents. Psychology in the Schools 2000, 37:535-545.
2. Ægisdóttir S., Gerstein L.H., Çinarbaş D.C. Methodological issues in cross-cultural counseling research: Equivalence, bias, and translations. The Counseling Psychologist 2008, 36:188-219.
3. Antony M.M., Purdon C.L., Huta V., Swinson R.P. Dimensions of perfectionism across the anxiety disorders. Behaviour Research and Therapy 1998, 36:1143-1154.
4. Azibo D.A. Understanding the proper and improper usage of comparative research framework. Journal of Black Psychology 1988, 15:81-91.
5. *Bardone-Cone A.M., Weishuhn A.S., Boyd C.A. Perfectionism and bulimic symptoms in African American college women: Dimensions of perfectionism and their interactions with perceived weight status. Journal of Counseling Psychology 2009, 56:266-275.
6. Baumrind D. Effects of authoritative control on child behavior. Child Development 1966, 37:887-907.
7. Ben-Porath Y.S. Cross-cultural assessment of personality: The case for replicatory factor analysis. Advances in personality assessment 1990, vol. 8:27-48. Erlbaum, Hillside, NJ.
8. Bieling P.J., Israeli A.L., Antony M.M. Is perfectionism good, bad, or both? Examining models of the perfectionism construct. Personality and Individual Differences 2004, 36:1373-1385.
9. Blatt S.J. The destructiveness of perfectionism: Implications for the treatment of depression. American Psychologist 1995, 50:1003-1020.
10. Blatt S.J., Zuroff D.C., Bondi C.M., Sanislow C.A., Pilkonis P.A. When and how perfectionism impedes the brief treatment of depression: Further analyses of the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1998, 66:423-428.
11. Brown E.J., Makris G.S., Juster H.R., Leung A.W., Heimberg R.G., Frost R.O. Relationship of perfectionism to affect, expectations, attributions, and performance in the classroom. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 1999, 18:98-120.
12. Byrne B.M. Structural equation modeling with LISREL, PRELIS, and SIMPLIS: Basic concepts, applications, and programming 1998, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ.
13. *Castro J.R., Rice K.G. Perfectionism and ethnicity: Implications for depressive symptoms and self-reported academic achievement. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology 2003, 9:64-78.
14. *Chang E.C. Cultural differences, perfectionism, and suicidal risk: Does social problem solving still matter?. Cognitive Therapy and Research 1998, 22:237-254.
15. Chang E.C. Perfectionism as a predictor of positive and negative psychological outcomes: Examining a mediation model in younger and older adults. Journal of Counseling Psychology 2000, 47:18-26.
16. *Chang E.C., Watkins A.F., Banks K.H. How adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism relate to positive and negative psychological functioning: Testing a stress-mediation model in Black and White female college students. Journal of Counseling Psychology 2004, 51:93-102.
17. Chao R.K. Beyond parental control and authoritarian parenting style: Understanding Chinese parenting through the cultural notion of training. Child Development 1994, 65:1111-1119.
18. Chao R.K., Tseng V. Parenting of Asians. Social conditions and applied parenting 2002, Vol. 4:59-93. Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. 2nd ed.
19. Chen C., Stevenson H.W. Motivation and mathematics achievement: A comparative study of Asian-American, Caucasian-American, and East Asian high school students. Child Development 1995, 66:1215-1234.
20. Clark L.A. Mutual relevance of mainstream and cross-cultural psychology. Readings in Ethnic Psychology 1998, 9-25. Routledge, New York. P.B. Organista, K.M. Chun, G. Marín (Eds.).
21. Cohen D. Methods in cultural psychology. Handbook of cultural psychology 2007, 196-236. Guilford Press, New York. S. Kitayama, D. Cohen (Eds.).
22. Cole E.R. Intersectionality and research in psychology. American Psychologist 2009, 64:170-180.
23. Cox B.J., Enns M.W., Clara I.P. The multidimensional structure of perfectionism in clinically distressed and college student samples. Psychological Assessment 2002, 14:365-373.
24. Davis C., Katzman M.A. Perfection as acculturation: Psychological correlates of eating problems in Chinese male and female students living in the United States. International Journal of Eating Disorders 1999, 25:65-70.
25. DiBartolo P.M., Frost R.O., Chang P., LaSota M., Grills A.E. Shedding light on the relationship between personal standards and psychopathology: The case for contingent self-worth. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy 2004, 22:241-254.
26. DiBartolo P.M., Li C.Y., Averett S., Skotheim S., Smith L.M., Raney C., et al. The relationship of perfectionism to judgmental bias and psychopathology. Cognitive Therapy and Research 2007, 31:573-587.
27. DiBartolo P.M., Li C.Y., Frost R.O. How do the dimensions of perfectionism relate to mental health?. Cognitive Therapy and Research 2008, 32:401-417.
28. Dornbusch S.M., Ritter P.L., Leiderman P.H., Roberts D.F., Fraleigh M.J. The relation of parenting style to adolescent school performance. Child Development 1987, 58:1244-1257.
29. Dunkley D.M., Zuroff D.C., Blankstein K.R. Self-critical perfectionism and daily affect: Dispositional and situational influences on stress and coping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003, 84:234-252.
30. Embretson S.E. Construct validity: Construct representation versus nomothetic span. Psychological Bulletin 1983, 93:179-197.
31. Essau C.A., Leung P.W.L., Conradt J., Cheng H., Wong T. Anxiety symptoms in Chinese and German adolescents: Their relationship with early learning experiences, perfectionism, and learning motivation. Depression and Anxiety 2008, 25:801-810.
32. Flett G.L., Hewitt P.L., Boucher D.J., Davidson L.A., Munro Y. The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale: Development, validation, and association with adjustment 2000, Unpublished manuscript.
33. Flett G.L., Hewitt P.L. Perfectionism and maladjustment: An overview of theoretical, definitional, and treatment issues. Perfectionism: Theory, research, and treatment 2002, 5-31. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. G.L. Flett, P.L. Hewitt (Eds.).
34. Flett G.L., Hewitt P.L. Perfectionism: Theory, research, and treatment 2002, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
35. Flett G.L., Hewitt P.L., Oliver J.M., Macdonald S. Perfectionism in children and their parents: A developmental analysis. Perfectionism: Theory, research, and treatment 2002, 89-132. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. G.L. Flett, P.L. Hewitt (Eds.).
36. Forham S., Ogbu J.U. Black students' school success: Coping with the "Burden of 'Acting White'". The Urban Review 1986, 18:176-206.
37. Frost R.O., DiBartolo P.M. Perfectionism, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Perfectionism: Theory, research, and treatment 2002, 341-372. American Psychological Association Press, New York. G.W. Flett, P.L. Hewitt (Eds.).
38. Frost R.O., Heimberg R.G., Holt C.S., Mattia J.L., Neubauer A.L. A comparison of two measures of perfectionism. Personality and Individual Differences 1993, 14:119-126.
39. Frost R.O., Lahart C.M., Rosenblate R. The development of perfectionism: A study of daughters and their parents. Cognitive Therapy and Research 1991, 15:469-489.
40. Frost R.O., Marten P., Lahart C., Rosenblate R. The dimensions of perfectionism. Cognitive Therapy and Research 1990, 4:449-468.
41. Frost R.O., Turcotte T.A., Heimberg R.G., Mattia J.I., Holt C.S., Hope D.A. Reactions to mistakes among subjects high and low in perfectionistic concern over mistakes. Cognitive Therapy and Research 1995, 19:195-205.
42. García Coll C., Pachter L.M. Ethnic and minority parenting. Social conditions and applied parenting 2002, Vol. 4:1-20. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ. 2nd ed.
43. Goldston D.B., Molock S.D., Whitbeck L.B., Murakami J.L., Zayas L.H., Hall G.C.N. Cultural considerations in adolescent suicide prevention and psychosocial treatment. American Psychologist 2008, 63:14-31.
44. Gouveia V.V., Clemente M., Espinosa P. The horizontal and vertical attributes of individualism and collectivism in a Spanish population. Journal of Social Psychology 2003, 143:43-63.
45. Grzegorek J.L., Slaney R.B., Franze S., Rice K.G. Self-criticism, dependency, self-esteem, and grade point average satisfaction among clusters of perfectionists and nonperfectionists. Journal of Counseling Psychology 2004, 51:192-200.
46. Hill R.W., Huelsman T.J., Furr R.M., Kibler J., Vicente B.B., Kennedy C. A new measure of perfectionism: The Perfectionism Inventory. Journal of Personality Assessment 2004, 82:80-91.
47. Hewitt P.L., Flett G.L. Perfectionism in the self and social context: Conceptualization, assessment, and association with psychopathology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1991, 60:456-470.
48. Hines P.M., Boyd-Franklin N. African American families. Ethnicity and family therapy 1996, 66-84. Guilford Press, New York. 2nd ed. M. McGoldrick, J. Giordano, J.K. Pearce (Eds.).
49. Joiner T.E., Schmidt N.B. Dimensions of perfectionism, life stress, and depressed and anxious symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 1995, 14:165-183.
50. Kawamura K.Y., Frost R.O. Self-concealment as a mediator in the relationship between perfectionism and psychological distress. Cognitive Therapy and Research 2004, 28:183-191.
51. *Kawamura K.Y., Frost R.O., Harmatz M.G. The relationship of perceived parenting styles to perfectionism. Personality and Individual Differences 2002, 32:317-327.
52. Leong F.T.L., Ponterotto J.G. A proposal for internationalizing counseling psychology in the United States: Rationale, recommendations, and challenges. The Counseling Psychologist 2003, 31:381-395.
53. Louie V. Compelled to excel: Immigration, education, and opportunity among Chinese Americans 2004, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
54. *McCreary B.T., Joiner T.E., Schmidt N.B., Ialongo N.S. The structure and correlates of perfectionism in African American children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 2004, 33:313-324.
55. *Mobley M., Slaney R.B., Rice K.G. Cultural validity of the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised for African American college students. Journal of Counseling Psychology 2005, 52:629-639.
56. Mordkowitz E.R., Ginsberg H.P. Early academic socialization of successful Asian-American college students. Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition 1987, 9:85-91.
57. *Nilsson J.E., Paul B.D., Lupini L.N., Tatem B. Cultural differences in perfectionism: A comparison of African American and White college students. Journal of College Student Development 1999, 40:141-150.
58. Nounopoulos A., Ashby J.S., Gilman R. Coping resources, perfectionism, and academic performance among adolescents. Psychology in the Schools 2006, 43:613-622.
59. O'Connor R.C., Dixon D., Rasmussen S. The structure and temporal stability of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale. Psychological Assessment 2009, 21:437-443.
60. Ogbu J.U. The consequences of American caste system. The school achievement of minority children 1986, 19-56. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. U. Neisser (Ed.).
61. Ogbu J.U. Minority coping responses and school experience. The Journal of Psychohistory 1991, 18:433-456.
62. Okazaki S., Sue S. Methodological issues in assessment research with ethnic minorities. Readings in ethnic psychology 1998, 26-40. Routledge, New York. P.B. Organista, K.M. Chun, G. Marín (Eds.).
63. Oyserman D., Coon H.M., Kemmelmeier M. Rethinking individualism and collectivism: Evaluation of the theoretical assumptions and meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin 2002, 128:3-72.
64. Oyserman D., Gant L., Ager J. A socially contextualized model of African American identity: Possible selves and school persistence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1995, 69:1216-1232.
65. Pearson C.A., Gleaves D.H. The multiple dimensions of perfectionism and their relation with eating disorder features. Personality and Individual Differences 2006, 41:225-235.
66. Peng S.S., Wright D. Explanation of academic achievement of Asian American students. The Journal of Educational Research 1994, 87:346-352.
67. Powers T.A., Koestner R., Topciu R.A. Implementation intentions, perfectionism, and goal progress: Perhaps the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2005, 31:902-912.
68. Rice K.G., Preusser K.J. The Adaptive/Maladaptive Perfectionism Scale. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development 2002, 34:210-222.
69. *Rice K.G., Tucker C.M., Desmond F.F. Perfectionism and depression among low-income chronically ill African American and White adolescents and their maternal parent. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings 2008, 15:171-181.
70. Rosnow R., Rosenthal R. Beginning behavioral research 2002, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
71. Sherry S.B., Hewitt P.L., Besser A., McGee B.J., Flett G.L. Self-oriented and socially-prescribed perfectionism in Eating Disorder Inventory perfectionism subscale. International Journal of Eating Disorders 2004, 35:69-79.
72. Slaney R.B., Rice K.G., Mobley M., Trippi J., Ashby J.S. The Revised Almost Perfect Scale. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development 2001, 34:130-145.
73. Solorzano D.G. An exploratory analysis of the effects of race, class, and gender on student and parent mobility aspirations. The Journal of Negro Education 1992, 61:30-44.
74. Sue S., Chun C., Gee K. Ethnic minority intervention and treatment research. Psychological interventions and cultural diversity 1995, 266-282. Allyn and Bacon, Boston. J.F. Aponte, R.Y. Rivers, J. Wohl (Eds.).
75. Sue S., Okazaki S. Asian-American educational achievements: A phenomenon in search of an explanation. American Psychologist 1990, 45:913-920.
76. Sue S., Zane N. Academic achievement and socioemotional adjustment among Chinese university students. Journal of Counseling Psychology 1985, 32:570-579.
77. Terry-Short L.A., Owens R.G., Slade P.D., Dewey M.E. Positive and negative perfectionism. Personality and Individual Differences 1995, 18:663-668.
78. Utsey S.O., Ponterotto J.G., Reynolds A.L., Caucelli A.A. Racial discrimination, coping, life satisfaction, and self-esteem among African Americans. Journal of Counseling and Development 2000, 78:72-80.
79. van de Vijver F., Leung K. Methods and data analysis for cross-cultural research 1997, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
80. *van Hanswijck de Jonge L., Waller G. Perfectionism level in African-American and Caucasian adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences 2003, 34:1447-1451.
81. Vieth A.Z., Trull T.J. Family patterns of perfectionism: An examination of college students and their parents. Journal of Personality Assessment 1999, 72:49-67.
82. Waldherr K., Favaro A., Santonastaso P., Van Strien T., Rathner G. Comparison of the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) in the Netherlands, Austria, and Italy. European Eating Disorders Review 2008, 16:472-479.
83. Wang K.T., Yuen M., Slaney R.B. Perfectionism, depression, loneliness, and life satisfaction: A study of high school students in Hong Kong. The Counseling Psychologist 2009, 37:249-274.
84. Weisz J.R., Weiss B., Suwanlert S., Chaiyasit W. Culture and youth psychopathology: Testing the syndromal sensitivity model in Thai and American adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2006, 74:1098-1107.
85. Winata H.K., Power T.G. Childrearing and compliance: Japanese and American families in Houston. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 1989, 20:333-356.
86. Wu C., Chao R.K. Intergenerational cultural conflicts in norms of parental warmth among Chinese American immigrants. International Journal of Behavioral Development 2005, 29:519-523.
87. Xie D., Leong F.T.L., Feng S. Culture-specific personality correlates of anxiety among Chinese and Caucasian college students. Asian Journal of Social Psychology 2008, 11:163-174.
88. *Yoon J., Lau A.S. Maladaptive perfectionism and depressive symptoms among Asian American college students: Contribution of interdependence and parental relations. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 2008, 14:92-101.