A Short Prospective Study on Multidimensional Perfectionism and Coping in Adolescents
A Short Prospective Study on Multidimensional Perfectionism and Coping in Adolescents

Summary/Abstract: Despite the growing literature addressing multidimensional perfectionism and coping, longitudinal studies on adolescents are scarce and have focused primarily on self-oriented perfectionism and socially prescribed perfectionism, leaving other- oriented perfectionism underexamined. Thus, investigating the longitudinal relation between multidimensional perfectionism and coping strategies was the primary aim of this study. Two-wave self-report data were collected from 227 adolescents (15-18 years old) over a one-month period. Cross-sectional analyses indicated that all three of perfectionism’s dimensions were linked to distinct coping profiles, with self- oriented perfectionism linked to engagement-oriented strategies, and the remaining two dimensions linked to emotion-focused and disengagement-oriented strategies. Regression analyses further demonstrated that other-oriented perfectionism uniquely predicted increases in behavioral disengagement over time, whereas no short-term changes in coping strategies were observed for the other two dimensions. The present findings underline the importance of examining all three dimensions of perfectionism and adopting a developmental perspective to better understand how personality characteristics shape stress regulation during adolescence.

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