@article{ref1,
title="Perfectionism, mattering, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation in students: a test of the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model",
journal="Personality and individual differences",
year="2022",
author="Etherson, Marianne E. and Smith, Martin M. and Hill, Andrew P. and Sherry, Simon B. and Curran, Thomas and Flett, Gordon L. and Hewitt, Paul L.",
volume="191",
number="",
pages="e111559-e111559",
abstract="The Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model (PSDM) is a theory-driven model of the relationship between perfectionism, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation. However, to date, tests of the PSDM have not included anti-mattering (i.e., feelings of not mattering alongside feelings of insignificance and marginalization) as a mediator or suicide ideation as an outcome. Critically, too, most research on the PSDM has relied on cross-sectional or two-wave longitudinal designs. Our study, then, examines whether perfectionism confers vulnerability to depressive symptoms and suicide ideation via mattering and anti-mattering in a three-wave longitudinal design. A sample of 181 undergraduates completed study measures on three occasions over six weeks. <br><br>FINDINGS provide strong support for the notion that socially prescribed perfectionism confers vulnerability to depressive symptoms via anti-mattering. Our findings suggest a need for future research on anti-mattering and suicide ideation, especially within the context of the PSDM and using longitudinal designs.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-8869",
doi="10.1016/j.paid.2022.111559",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111559"
}