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Perfectionism as an Explanatory Construct in Comorbidity of Axis I Disorders

Abstract

Understanding comorbidity is an important challenge for psychopathology researchers and diagnostic systems given the repeated finding of very high comorbidity rates among Axis I disorders in psychiatric samples. This paper proposes that perfectionism may be a critical factor for understanding levels of comorbidity, and a conceptual argument for the importance of perfectionism as an explanatory construct for comorbidity is advanced. The link …

Authors

Bieling PJ; Summerfeldt LJ; Israeli AL; Antony MM

Journal

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 193–201

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

September 2004

DOI

10.1023/b:joba.0000022112.27186.98

ISSN

0882-2689