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  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
14,454 Views
11 Pages

The Influence of Parental Perfectionism and Parenting Styles on Child Perfectionism

  • Cláudia Carmo,
  • Diana Oliveira,
  • Marta Brás and
  • Luís Faísca

4 September 2021

Perfectionism is a significant transdiagnostic process related to the development and maintenance of several psychological disorders. The main models of the development of perfectionism focus on early childhood experiences and postulate that parental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,404 Views
20 Pages

The Role of Parental Perfectionism and Child Temperament in the Intergenerational Transmission of Perfectionism: A Pilot Study

  • Diana Oliveira,
  • Carolina Martins,
  • Luís Faísca,
  • Marta Brás,
  • Cristina Nunes and
  • Cláudia Carmo

25 October 2025

Background/Objectives: Perfectionism is a personality trait characterised by the setting of extremely high and unrealistic personal standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations. The literature indicates that perfectionism may develop as a lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,590 Views
18 Pages

Spanish Validation of the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale: Factorial Invariance and Latent Means Differences across Sex and Age

  • María Vicent,
  • Cándido J. Inglés,
  • Ricardo Sanmartín,
  • Carolina Gonzálvez,
  • Beatriz Delgado and
  • José Manuel García-Fernández

6 November 2019

The present study analyzed the psychometric properties of a Spanish translation of the child–adolescent perfectionism scale (CAPS-S), as well as its factorial invariance and latent means differences across sex and age. A sample of 1809 Spanish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,691 Views
13 Pages

Socially prescribed perfectionism and affectivity in Spanish child population

  • María Vicent,
  • Cándido J. Inglés,
  • Ricardo Sanmartín,
  • Carolina Gonzálvez,
  • Lucía Granados Alós and
  • José Manuel García-Fernández

This study aims to analyze the relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and affect during childhood. A sample of 804 students aged between 8 and 11 years old (M=9.57; SD=1.12), as well as the SPP subscale of the Child and Adolesce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,102 Views
12 Pages

Dyadic Predictors of Child Body Shame in a Polish and Italian Sample

  • Kamila Czepczor-Bernat,
  • Justyna Modrzejewska,
  • Adriana Modrzejewska,
  • Emanuela Calandri,
  • Silvia Gattino and
  • Chiara Rollero

The present study aimed at assessing the predictors (related to the functioning of a parent-child dyad) of child body shame. Therefore, in the main analysis we examined relationships among child body shame, child perfectionism, child body dissatisfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,549 Views
14 Pages

19 March 2019

This study of parents in Romania explores how perceptions of their couple relationship quality and of factors associated with it (such as sexual communication anxiety and sexual perfectionism) were related to their perception of aspects describing pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
17,132 Views
19 Pages

The Correlates of Academic Stress in Hong Kong

  • Esther Pui Yung Chyu and
  • Ji-Kang Chen

Most previous studies have attempted to explore how different personal, familial, or school factors are linked to academic stress in Western countries. However, relatively less research has incorporated these different factors into one model to exami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,953 Views
15 Pages

How Does Perfectionism Influence the Development of Psychological Strengths and Difficulties in Children?

  • Silvia Melero,
  • Alexandra Morales,
  • José Pedro Espada,
  • Iván Fernández-Martínez and
  • Mireia Orgilés

This study aimed to examine differences in gender, age, and psychopathology, according to the perfectionism level, and to analyze how perfectionism dimensions contribute to the development of psychological strengths and difficulties in children. Part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,054 Views
11 Pages

Perfectionistic Children and Their Parents: Is There Room for an Intergenerational Transmission? A Study of a Clinical Sample of Italian Children and Their Parents

  • Melania Martucci,
  • Maria Castellano Visaggi,
  • Giorgia Di Iorio,
  • Mariacarolina Vacca,
  • Valerio Zaccaria,
  • Ignazio Ardizzone and
  • Caterina Lombardo

26 February 2023

Introduction: The relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and Internalizing (ID) and Externalizing Disorders (ED) in children needs to be better understood, along with the intergenerational transmission of these traits from parents to children...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,907 Views
14 Pages

The fertility deficit in many European countries is related to a low rate of second births. Understanding the factors associated with the predisposition of one-child parents to have more children could contribute to the search for solutions to this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
474 Views
19 Pages

Perfectionism, Family Climate and Emotion Regulation in Childhood

  • Katerina Antonopoulou,
  • Nikolaos Anastasopoulos,
  • Dimitrios A. Alexopoulos and
  • Sofia Kouvava

4 January 2026

While perfectionism is recognized as a complex personality trait with both adaptive and maladaptive facets in adults, the specific developmental and contextual factors that influence its emergence in children are poorly understood. This study address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,448 Views
12 Pages

Socially prescribed perfectioism and personality

  • María Vicent,
  • Cándido J. Inglés,
  • Carolina Gonzálvez,
  • Ricardo Sanmartín and
  • José Manuel García-Fernández

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (SPP) and the Big Five personality traits in a sample of 804 Primary School students between 8 and 11 years old (M=9.57; SD=1.12). The SPP subscale of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,962 Views
11 Pages

19 October 2023

Background: Past research has shown that perfectionistic strivings (PS) and perfectionistic concerns (PC) in the parenting domain are associated with an increase in parental burnout (PB), and that PB causally increases violence towards one’s of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,710 Views
12 Pages

The Effects of COVID-19 on the Emotional and Social Stability, Motivation and Attitudes of Gifted and Non-Gifted Children in Greece

  • Alexandros Papandreou,
  • Alkistis Mavrogalou,
  • Aristodemos-Theodoros Periferakis,
  • Argyrios Periferakis,
  • Ioana Anca Badarau,
  • Ovidiu Popa-Velea and
  • Cristian Scheau

10 April 2023

Gifted children exhibit advanced cognitive abilities, usually beyond their emotional development, which puts them at higher risk of the negative consequences of isolation. This study investigates the effects of distance learning and home confinement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,283 Views
17 Pages

This research work had three objectives: (1) to analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Work–Family Guilt Scale, (2) to examine its invariance according to gender, and (3) to study the relationship between work–family guilt...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,376 Views
17 Pages

Impact of the MooN Physical Education Program on the Socio-Emotional Competencies of Preadolescents

  • Pablo Luna,
  • Javier Cejudo,
  • José A. Piqueras,
  • Débora Rodrigo-Ruiz,
  • Miriam Bajo and
  • Juan-Carlos Pérez-González

Few studies have analyzed emotional educational experiences through physical education interventions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects on socio-emotional competencies of a physical education intervention (i.e., the MooN program...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,051 Views
14 Pages

The Flip Side of the Coin: Giftedness in Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome

  • Denise Calaprice,
  • Ryan Terreri,
  • Christopher Whitty,
  • Ryan Whitty and
  • Janice Tona

16 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Individuals with Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS), an immune-modulated disorder, experience exacerbation-related neuropsychiatric symptoms, functional impairments, and high rates of developmental diagnosis...