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

dc.authorscopusid 57697058000
dc.authorscopusid 55014217900
dc.contributor.author Abdulcebbar, A.
dc.contributor.author Altan-Atalay, A.
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 A.] Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey; [Altan-Atalay A.] Department of Psychology, Kadir Has University, Fatih/Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey 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. © The Author(s) 2025. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s12144-025-07791-2
dc.identifier.issn 1046-1310
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.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/7338
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.relation.ispartof Current Psychology en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 0
dc.subject Cognitive Vulnerabilities en_US
dc.subject Looming Cognitive Style en_US
dc.subject Negative Life Events en_US
dc.subject Perfectionism en_US
dc.subject Stress Generation en_US
dc.subject Transdiagnostic Risk Factors 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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