The Relationship Between Perfectionism and Stress Generation: the Moderating Role of Looming Cognitive Style

dc.authorscopusid 57697058000
dc.authorscopusid 55014217900
dc.authorwosid Altan-Atalay, Ayse/Aav-5413-2020
dc.contributor.author Abdulcebbar, Amal
dc.contributor.author Altan-Atalay, Ayse
dc.date.accessioned 2025-05-15T18:39:48Z
dc.date.available 2025-05-15T18:39:48Z
dc.date.issued 2025
dc.department Kadir Has University en_US
dc.department-temp [Abdulcebbar, Amal] Koc Univ, Dept Psychol, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Altan-Atalay, Ayse] Kadir Has Univ, Dept Psychol, Istanbul, Turkiye en_US
dc.description.abstract The stress generation hypothesis suggests that certain maladaptive personality traits significantly contribute to the generation of negative life events (NLEs) in people's lives through inherent maladaptive mechanisms. Previous research indicated that the impact of stress generating risk factors might be augmented or weakened by other transdiagnostic risk factors such as the looming cognitive style (LCS) which includes physical and social looming that have been found to predict different domains of life stressors. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the moderating roles of the dimensions of the LCS separately, in the relationship between perfectionism (i.e., socially prescribed perfectionism) and stress generation in a group of emerging adults. One-hundred and ninety nine (134 females) undergraduate students aged 18-25 (M = 20.23, SD = 1.56) completed an online questionnaire that measured their level of perfectionism, LCS, and NLEs twice over a six-week interval. The results showed that only social looming significantly moderated the relationship between socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP) and interpersonal NLEs at time 2. These findings show the augmenting impact of social looming on the stress generating effect of elevated SPP, highlighting the importance of examining co-occuring vulnerabilities rather than single risk factors in the stress generation process. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBIdot;TAK) en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Open access funding provided by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUB & Idot;TAK). The authors declare that they did not receive any funding. en_US
dc.description.woscitationindex Social Science Citation Index
dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s12144-025-07791-2
dc.identifier.issn 1046-1310
dc.identifier.issn 1936-4733
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-105002228961
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q2
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07791-2
dc.identifier.wos WOS:001463275400001
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 0
dc.subject Stress Generation en_US
dc.subject Negative Life Events en_US
dc.subject Transdiagnostic Risk Factors en_US
dc.subject Looming Cognitive Style en_US
dc.subject Perfectionism en_US
dc.subject Cognitive Vulnerabilities en_US
dc.title The Relationship Between Perfectionism and Stress Generation: the Moderating Role of Looming Cognitive Style en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dspace.entity.type Publication

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