Dimensions of perfectionism as vulnerability factors for depression in the narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive personalities : a test of a specific diathesis-stress model
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Patricia M. B. Cassady (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Rosemery Nelson-Gray
Abstract: Theoretical and clinical descriptions of narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders portray individuals with these disorders as pathologically perfectionistic. Personality dysfunction has been identified as a vulnerability factor for depression. The specificity hypothesis posits that the interaction of pathological personality characteristics and stress consistent with those personality characteristics has a depressogenic effect. It was hypothesized that individuals with obsessive-compulsive and narcissistic personality styles would respond with dysphoric mood in a different manner from one another, from individuals with other personality disorder styles, and from individuals with non-dysfunctional personality styles to stress congruent with self-oriented perfectionism, other-oriented perfectionism, and socially prescribed perfectionism. It was also hypothesized that stress congruent with self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism would produce higher levels of dysphoria than stress congruent with other-oriented perfectionism, regardless of participant personality styles.
Dimensions of perfectionism as vulnerability factors for depression in the narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive personalities : a test of a specific diathesis-stress model
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1996
- Subjects
- Narcissistic injuries
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Depression, Mental