@article{ref1,
title="Perfectionism, hopelessness, and suicide ideation: Revisions to diathesis-stress and specific vulnerability models",
journal="Journal of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy",
year="2007",
author="Blankstein, K.R. and Lumley, C.H. and Crawford, A.",
volume="25",
number="4",
pages="279-319",
abstract="The current study examined variables (daily hassles, self-esteem, dispositional optimism, coping modes, and perceived social support) that could potentially moderate associations between dimensions of perfectionism and current feelings of hopelessness and suicide ideation in university students (144 women; 61 men). Our study revealed several significant findings: (1) socially prescribed perfectionism was a significant predictor of suicide ideation, interpersonal hopelessness, and achievement hopelessness for both women and men; (2) self-oriented perfectionism did not have an independent relation with any of the suicide risk outcome variables in either women or men; (3) other-oriented perfectionism was associated negatively with both current hopelessness, particularly interpersonal hopelessness, and suicide ideation in men; (4) the cluster of proposed moderators accounted for additional unique variance in all suicide risk variables in women but in achievement hopelessness only in men; (5) optimism and social hassles were unique predictors but the results varied as a function of gender and outcome; (6) each perfectionism component interacted with specific moderators to enhance or buffer the link between perfectionism and suicide risk. The findings indicate that self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism are possibly adaptive or maladaptive under certain conditions. Implications for the development of comprehensive, multidimensional, integrated models of the perfectionism-suicide risk link and for prevention and treatment in perfectionists at risk of suicide are discussed. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9085",
doi="10.1007/s10942-007-0053-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10942-007-0053-6"
}