Further evidence on the "costs of privilege": Perfectionism in high-achieving youth at socioeconomic extremes

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 913-930

  Lyman, Emily L ^a   Luthar, Suniya S ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027944723     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: 15206807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pits.21791     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Achenbach, T. M., & Rescorla, L. A. (2001). Manual for the ASEBA school-age forms & profiles: An integrated system of multi-informant assessment. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Research Center for Children, Youth, & Families.
2. Armsden, G. C., & Greenberg, M. T. (1987). The inventory of parent and peer attachment: Individual differences and their relationship to psychological well-being in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 16, 427-454.
3. Bartlett, M. Y., Valdesolo, P., & DeSteno, D. (2006). Jealousy and the threatened self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 626-641.
4. Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenaur, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5, 323.
5. Berzin, S. C. (2010). Educational aspirations among low-income youths: Examining multiple conceptual models. Children & Schools, 32, 112-124.
6. Bowman, B., & Ray, A. (2012). Low-income families and young children's development and school success. In B. Falk (Ed.), Defending childhood: Keeping the promise of early education (pp. 63-88). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
7. Brickman, P., & Campbell, D. T. (1971). Hedonic relativism and planning the good society. In M. H. Appley (Ed.), Adaptation level theory: A symposium (pp. 287-302). New York, NY: Academic Press.
8. Burchinal, M., McCartney, K., Steinberg, L., Crosnoe, R., Friedman, S. L., McLoyd, V., & Pianta, R. (2011). Examining the Black-White achievement gap among low-income children using the NICHD study of early child care and youth development. Child Development, 82, 1404-1420.
9. Cohen, J., Cohen, P., West, S. G., & Aiken, L. S. (2003). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
10. Connell, C. M., Gilreath, T. D., Aklin, W. M., & Brex, R. A. (2010). Social-ecological influences on patterns of substance use among non-metropolitan high school students. American Journal of Community Psychology, 45, 36-48.
11. Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). The "what" and "why" of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 227-268.
12. Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2012). Motivation, personality, and development within embedded social contexts: An overview of self-determination theory. In R. M. Ryan (Ed.), Oxford handbook of human motivation (pp. 85-107). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
13. Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., & Scollon, C. N. (2006). Beyond the hedonic treadmill: Revising the adaptation theory of well-being. American Psychologist, 61, 305.
14. Dodge, R., Daly, A., Huyton, J., & Sanders, L. (2012). The challenge of defining wellbeing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 2, 222-235.
15. Duriez, B., Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2007). In search of the antecedents of adolescent authoritarianism: The relative contribution of parental goal promotion and parenting style dimensions. European Journal of Personality, 21, 507-527.
16. Fineran, S., & Bennett, L. (1999). Gender and power issues of peer sexual harassment among teenagers. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 14, 626-641.
17. Fiske, S. T. (2010). Envy up, scorn down: How comparison divides us. The American Psychologist, 65, 698-706.
18. Flett, G. L., Panico, T., & Hewitt, P. L. (2011). Perfectionism, Type A behavior, and self-efficacy in depression and health symptoms among adolescents. Current Psychology, 30, 105-116.
19. Friedman, M. A., Wilfley, D. E., Pike, K. M., Striegel-Moore, R. H., & Rodin, J. (2012). The relationship between weight and psychological functioning among adolescent girls. Obesity Research, 3, 57-62.
20. Frost, R. O., Marten, P., Lahart, C., & Rosenblate, R. (1990). The dimensions of perfectionism. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 14, 449-468.
21. Furman, W., & Buhrmester, D. (1985). Children's perceptions of the personal relationships in their social networks. Developmental Psychology, 21, 1016-1024.
22. Garcia Coll, C. G., Crnic, K., Lamberty, G., Wasik, B. H., Jenkins, R., García, H. V., & McAdoo, H. P. (1996). An integrative model for the study of developmental competencies in minority children. Child Development, 67, 1891-1914.
23. Garner, D. M., Olmstead, M. P., & Polivy, J. (1983). Development and validation of a multi-dimensional eating disorder inventory for anorexia nervosa and bulimia. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2, 15-34.
24. Gebeloff, R., & Dewan, S. (2012, January 17). Measuring the top 1% by wealth, not income. Retrieved from http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-top-1-by-wealth-not-income/
25. Gruber, J. E., & Fineran, S. (2008). Comparing the impact of bullying and sexual harassment victimization on the mental and physical health of adolescents. Sex Roles, 59, 1-13.
26. Harris, J. R. (1998). The nurture assumption: Why children turn out the way they do. New York, NY: Free Press.
27. Hewitt, P. L., Blasberg, J. S., Flett, G. L., Besser, A., Sherry, S. B., Caelian, C., .. Birch, S. (2011). Perfectionistic self-presentation children and adolescents: Development and validation of the Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale-Junior Form. Psychological Assessment, 23, 125-142.
28. Hewitt, P. L., Flett, G. L., Sherry, S. B., Habke, M., Parkin, M., Lam, R. W., .. Stein, M. B. (2003). The interpersonal expression of perfection: Perfectionistic self-presentation and psychological distress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1303-1325.
29. Hughes, E. K., & Gullone, E. (2010). Reciprocal relationships between parents and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 24, 115.
30. Johnston, L. D., O'Malley, P. M., & Bachman, J. G. (1984). Drugs and American high school students: 1975-1983 (DHHS Publication No. ADM 85-1374). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
31. Joseph, S., & Wood, A. (2010). Assessment of positive functioning in clinical psychology: Theoretical and practical issues. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 830-838.
32. Judd, C. M., Kenny, D. A., & McClelland, G. H. (2001). Estimating and testing mediation and moderation in within-subject designs. Psychological Methods, 6, 115-134.
33. Kasser, T. (2002). The high price of materialism. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
34. Kasser, T., & Ryan, R. M. (1996). Further examining the American dream: Differential correlates of intrinsic and extrinsic goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 280-287.
35. Lavallee, K. L., & Parker, J. G. (2009). The role of inflexible friendship beliefs, rumination, and low self-worth in early adolescents' friendship jealousy and adjustment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 873-885.
36. Lee, A., Hankin, B. L., & Mermelstein, R. J. (2010). Perceived social competence, negative social interactions, and negative cognitive style predict depressive symptoms during adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 39, 603-615.
37. Lo, A., & Abbott, M. J. (2013). Review of the theoretical, empirical, and clinical status of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism. Behaviour Change, 30, 96-116.
38. Luthar, S. S. (2006). Resilience in development: A synthesis of research across five decades. In D. Cicchetti, & D. J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Risk, disorder, and adaptation (2nd ed., pp. 739-795). New York, NY: Wiley.
39. Luthar, S. S., & Ansary, N. S. (2005). Dimensions of adolescent rebellion: Risks for academic failure among high- and low-income youth. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 231-250.
40. Luthar, S. S., & Barkin, S. H. (2012). Are affluent youth truly "at risk"? Vulnerability and resilience across three diverse samples. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 429-449.
41. Luthar, S. S., Barkin, S. H., & Crossman, E. J. (2013). "I can, therefore I must": Fragility in the upper middle classes. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 1529-1549.
42. Luthar, S. S., & D'Avanzo, K. (1999). Contextual factors in substance use: A study of suburban and inner-city adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 845-867.
43. Luthar, S. S., Siegel, T., Sin, E., & Thrastardottir, B. (2013, August). Envy of peers: Another "cost of affluence." Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.
44. Marmorstein, N. R., White, H., Chung, T., Hipwell, A., Stouthamer-Loeber, M., & Loeber, R. (2010). Associations between first use of substances and change in internalizing symptoms among girls: Differences by symptom trajectory and substance use type. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 545-558.
45. Masten, C. L., Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). Time spent with friends in adolescence relates to less neural sensitivity to later peer rejection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 106-114.
46. McLoyd, V. C., Kaplan, R., Purtell, K. M., Bagley, E., Hardaway, C. R., & Smalls, C. (2009). Poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage in adolescence. Handbook of adolescent psychology (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 444-491). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
47. Miller, A. (1995). The drama of the gifted child: The search for the true self. New York, NY: Basic Books.
48. Morin, A. J., Maïano, C., Marsh, H. W., Janosz, M., & Nagengast, B. (2011). The longitudinal interplay of adolescents' self-esteem and body image: A conditional autoregressive latent trajectory analysis. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 46, 157-201.
49. Ninivaggi, F. J. (2010). Envy theory: Perspectives on the psychology of envy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
50. Patrick, M. E., Wightman, P., Schoeni, R. E., & Schulenberg J. E. (2012). Socioeconomic status and substance use among young adults: A comparison across constructs and drugs. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73, 772-782.
51. Patterson, R. E., Wang, K. T., & Slaney, R. B. (2012). Multidimensional perfectionism, depression and relational health in women with eating disturbances. Eating Behaviors, 13, 226-232.
52. Peterson, J. L., & Hyde, J. S. (2009). A longitudinal investigation of peer sexual harassment victimization in adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 32, 1173-1188.
53. Prince-Embury, S. (2005). Resiliency scales for adolescents: A profile of personal strengths manual. San Antonio, TX: Harcourt.
54. Russell, A. M. T., & Fiske, S. T. (2008). It's all relative: Competition and status drive interpersonal perception. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 1193-1201.
55. Schiffman, L. (2011, December 9). Study on suburban heroin use dispels myths about protective and risk factors. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/suburban-heroin-use-study_n_1019629.html
56. Schoenborn, C. A., & Adams, P. E. (2010). Health behaviors of adults: United States, 2005-2007. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital and Health Statistics, 10(245), 1-132.
57. Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). Authentic happiness using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment. New York, NY: The Free Press.
58. Sheldon, K. M., & Hoon, T. H. (2007). The multiple determination of well-being: Independent effects of positive traits, needs, goals, selves, social supports, and cultural contexts. Journal of Happiness Studies, 8, 565-592.
59. Sheldon, K. M., & Kasser, T. (2008). Psychological threat and extrinsic goal striving. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 37-45.
60. Singleton, R. A., & Vacca, J. (2007). Interpersonal competition in friendships. Sex Roles, 57, 617-627.
61. Taylor, R. D. (2011). Association of poverty with family relations and children's and adolescents' socioemotional adjustment. In S. Redding, M. Murphy, & P. Sheley (Eds.), Handbook on family and community engagement (pp. 125-128). Lincoln, IL: Information Age Publishing.
62. Vannatta, K., Gartstein, M. A. Zeller, M., & Noll, R. B. (2009). Peer acceptance and social behavior during childhood and adolescence: How important are appearance, athleticism, and academic competence? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, 303-311.
63. Vansteenkiste, M., Duriez, B., Simons, J., & Soenens, B. (2006). Materialistic values and well-being among business students: Further evidence of their detrimental effect. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 2892-2908.
64. Verplanken, B., & Velsvik, R. (2008). Habitual negative body image thinking as psychological risk factor in adolescents. Body Image, 5, 133-140.
65. Weissman, M. M., Wickramaratne, P., Adams, P., Wolk, S., Verdeli, H., & Olfson, M. (2000). Brief screening for family psychiatric history: The family history screen. Archives of General Psychiatry, 57, 675-682.
66. Yates, T. M., Tracy, A. J., & Luthar, S. S. (2008). Nonsuicidal self-injury among "privileged" youths: Longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches to developmental process. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 52-62.