@article{ref1,
title="Longitudinal links between perfectionism and depression in children",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="2014",
author="Asseraf, Marielle and Vaillancourt, Tracy",
volume="43",
number="5",
pages="895-908",
abstract="The temporal relation between two types of perfectionism - self-oriented perfectionism (SOP) and socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP) - and depressive symptoms was examined in a sample of 653 children (286 girls, 367 boys) across Grades 6 (depressive symptoms only), 7, and 8. A vulnerability model, in which perfectionism affects depressive symptoms, was compared to a scar model, in which depressive symptoms affects perfectionism, and to a reciprocal-causality model, in which both constructs concurrently affect each other across time. Cross-lagged paths analyses using structural equation modeling supported a scar model where increases in depressive symptoms lead to increases in SPP, but not SOP. The findings applied to both boys and girls. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that in childhood, depressive symptoms increase the perception that others are expecting excessively high standards of oneself and the need to satisfy this perception.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="10.1007/s10802-014-9947-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9947-9"
}