Is perfectionism good, bad, or both? Examining models of the perfectionism construct

Perfectionism has been conceptualized as a personality variable that underlies a variety of psychological difficulties. Recently, however, theorists and researchers have begun to distinguish between two distinct types of perfectionism, one a maladaptive form that results in emotional distress, and a second form that is relatively benign, perhaps even adaptive. In this study, we compared varying models of the perfectionism construct using the …