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What is Hyper-Perfectionism
Perfectionism is a personality trait characterized by striving for flawlessness and setting excessively high standards for performance accompanied by overly critical evaluations of one’s behavior. Frost 1Frost, Randy O.; Marten, Patricia; Lahart, Cathleen; Rosenblate, Robin (1990). “The dimensions of perfectionism”. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 14 (5): 449–468. doi:10.1007/BF01172967 first modeled the hyper-perfectionism scale with six factors. Thereafter a significant amount of studies and research have been conducted in this direction. There is essentially two higher-order perfectionism that determines lower-order perfectionisms.
Personal standards perfectionism
This involves a family of traits encompassing the tendency to demand perfection of oneself (i.e., self-oriented perfectionism)2 Hewitt, P. L., & Flett, G. L. (1991). Perfectionism in the self and social contexts: Conceptualization, assessment, and association with psychopathology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 456–470. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.60.3.456. This spectrum of perfectionism encompasses sets of traits relating to setting unrealistically high standards of personal perfection.
The Negative Side of Personal Standard Perfectionism
- Neuroticism
- Depression
- Rumination(thinking too much about the past)
- Overpushing
- Fatigue and Exhaustion.
- Feels like failing in everything you do.
- Inability to rest and relax.
- Becoming obsessed with rules, lists, and work.
The Positive side of the Personal Standard Perfectionism
- Conscientiousness
- Task-oriented coping.
- Creating better values for the self and society.
- Deriving satisfaction out of work and inhibition of pleasure and addiction.
- Enjoying better social and professional trust.
- Ability to create assets and leverages.
- Immune to judgment fear.
- Focussing on long-term goals.
Therefore, standard personal perfectionism may lead to positive psychology, helping one to develop a growth mindset and benefit self and others from consistently higher work standards. However, once the standards are set too high, and self-standards are raised continuously, they may often lead to accelerated aging, extreme stress, and eventually fatigue and exhaustion. Individuals stop enjoying their work and focus more on the outcome and the perfection of the outcome.
Evaluative Concerns Perfectionism
Evaluative concerns perfectionism involves a constellation of traits comprising the tendency to perceive others as demanding perfection (i.e., socially prescribed perfectionism3Stoeber, J., Feast, A. R., & Hayward, J. A. (2009). Self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism: Differential relationships with intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and test anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(5), 423-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.014. This is the fear of failure and overtly negative reaction to a perceived failure. “What will people think of me if I fail?”
Evaluation concern perfectionism doesn’t have any positive side and is a purely negative psychological construct.
Negative sides of the Evaluative Concern Perfectionism
- Self-doubt.
- Comfort zone.
- Fear of taking action.
- Hypercriticism.
- Entitlement
- Grandiosity and Narcissism.
- Procrastination.
- Controlling.
- Shortcuts and short milestones where chances of failures are almost nill.
- Fear of judgment.
Why Take the Hyper-perfectionism Self-Assessment Screening Test?
We can understand from the above discussion that hyper-perfectionism is a double-edged knife. It may lead to a significantly improved satisfaction life and on the other hand, if you become unaware of the growing hyperperfectionism, it may become a compulsive obsession. Obsession doesn’t limit to profession only, and you will start seeing several other comorbidities, including but not limited to insomnia, higher narcissistic spectrum, social and self disassociation, fatigue, depression, and so on.
This test will help you to identify yourself on the accurate side of the spectrum to take the appropriate measures.
The Big Three Perfectionism Scale
The BTPS4Feher, A., Smith, M. M., Saklofske, D. H., Plouffe, R. A., Wilson, C. A., & Sherry, S. B. (2020). The Big Three Perfectionism Scale–Short Form (BTPS-SF): Development of a Brief Self-Report Measure of Multidimensional Perfectionism. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 38(1), 37–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282919878553 5Smith, M. M., Saklofske, D. H., Stoeber, J., & Sherry, S. B. (2016, in press). The Big ThreePerfectionism Scale: A new measure of perfectionism. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. DOI: 10.1177/0734282916651539 was developed to provide a fine-grained analysis of multidimensional perfectionism. To this aim, the authors constructed a 45-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure three global perfectionism factors (rigid perfectionism, self-critical perfectionism, and narcissistic perfectionism) composed of 10 core perfectionism facets. Scales constructed using facets assuage theoretical confusion, reduce the possibility of omitting core content, and afford greater reliability and precision in assessment.
Relevance of BTP Lyfas Test for the Clinicians
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment DSM-5 300.3 (F42) is a recognized clinical condition that might have a hyper-perfectionism drive at the core. Therefore, clinicians treating OCD may ask their patients to take the Hyper-perfectionism test. This is also beneficial for behavioral therapists assisting their patients with depression, frustration, and addiction. Hyperperfectionism is one of the possible comorbid conditions to anger and anxiety. Therefore behavioral therapists may ask their patients to take this test to understand the associated correlation of hyperperfectionism to anxiety and aggression.
Neurologists treating their patients with OCD or neuroticism may ask them to take this test based on their clinical investigation to understand the behavioral and psychological part of the patient. Because hyperperfectionism leads to the over-activation of the HPA axis and dopamine-modulated pathways, this test may be beneficial for benchmarking the treatment.
Immunologists treating their patients for autoimmunity or allergic conditions may investigate the hyperperfectionism of their patients, as the negative spectrum may keep the patients in the sympathetic overdrive, resulting in the excess synthesis of Histamine and inhibition of Serotonin. Combining an anti-histamine drug line of treatment with behavioral assistance to patients may significantly improve the overall condition of patients.
Interventional cardiologists treating their patients for essential hypertension, heart failure, and anxiety may investigate the underneath hyperperfectionism of the patients. Helping patients with an assistive cognitive behavioral therapist to help the patient regulate their negative hyper-perfectionism can help improve the arterial elasticity of your patients by reducing sympathetic overdrive and thereby regulating the calcium channel.
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Relevance of the test for the test-takers and Individuals
- Knowing thyself better for self-healing.
- Become aware of toxic relationships and take appropriate steps.
- Become aware of codependency and the possibility of being taken advantage of by others.
- Become aware of the possible continuous failure in the profession.
- Become aware of attracting more toxic people in life.
- Become aware of the current and future health risks.
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References
- 1Frost, Randy O.; Marten, Patricia; Lahart, Cathleen; Rosenblate, Robin (1990). “The dimensions of perfectionism”. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 14 (5): 449–468. doi:10.1007/BF01172967
- 2Hewitt, P. L., & Flett, G. L. (1991). Perfectionism in the self and social contexts: Conceptualization, assessment, and association with psychopathology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 456–470. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.60.3.456
- 3Stoeber, J., Feast, A. R., & Hayward, J. A. (2009). Self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism: Differential relationships with intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and test anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(5), 423-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.014
- 4Feher, A., Smith, M. M., Saklofske, D. H., Plouffe, R. A., Wilson, C. A., & Sherry, S. B. (2020). The Big Three Perfectionism Scale–Short Form (BTPS-SF): Development of a Brief Self-Report Measure of Multidimensional Perfectionism. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 38(1), 37–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282919878553
- 5Smith, M. M., Saklofske, D. H., Stoeber, J., & Sherry, S. B. (2016, in press). The Big ThreePerfectionism Scale: A new measure of perfectionism. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. DOI: 10.1177/0734282916651539
