The relationship between perfectionism, agency, and communion: A longitudinal mixed methods analysis

Sean P. Mackinnon; Simon B. Sherry; Michael W. Pratt

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2013.02.007

The relationship between perfectionism, agency, and communion: A longitudinal mixed methods analysis

Sean P. Mackinnon, Simon B. Sherry, Michael W. Pratt

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Theory suggests perfectionists are inordinately motivated by agentic concerns (status, power, achievement, and self-mastery) and have deficits in communal domains (friendship, support, togetherness, and mutual dialogue). Emerging adults transitioning to university participated in a 2-wave, 130-day longitudinal design with quantitative and qualitative components. Participants completed questionnaire measures of perfectionism, and themes of agency and communion were coded from autobiographical narratives. Perfectionism was positively correlated with agency (especially status/victory subthemes) and uncorrelated with communion. Perfectionistic concerns and perfectionism cognitions were the most consistent correlates of agency across waves. Results support assertions that perfectionists are concerned with performance, self-control, dominance, and being recognized for achievements. Hypotheses regarding communion were unsupported, suggesting a need to develop coding schemes focused on social disconnection.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	263-271
Número de páginas	9
Publicación	Journal of Research in Personality
Volumen	47
N.º	4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.02.007
Estado	Published - ago. 2013

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This article was funded by a grant awarded to Sean Mackinnon, Simon Sherry, and Michael Pratt from the Dalhousie University Department of Psychiatry Research Fund. Sean Mackinnon was supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and an honorary Izaak Walton Killam Level II Scholarship. This article represents a portion of Sean Mackinnon’s dissertation supervised by Simon Sherry. This manuscript is based on data collected as part of previously published longitudinal studies, see Mackinnon and Sherry (2012) in Personality and Individual Differences and Sherry, Mackinnon, Macneil, and Fitzpatrick (2013) in Journal of Counseling Psychology for other papers using this dataset. We thank Samantha Difrancescantonio, Skye Fitzpatrick, Jamie Fulmore, Chantal Gautreau, Natalie Gyenes, Michelle Hicks, Courtney Heisler, Anna Mackinnon, Matthew MacNeil, Leanne Robertson, and Martin Smith for their valuable research assistance.

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