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The Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale: correlations with depression in college students with learning disabilities

C D Saddler1, R L Buckland

  • 1California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks 91360-2787, USA.

Psychological Reports
|October 1, 1995
PubMed
Summary

Perfectionism in college students with learning disabilities shows a weaker link to depression than in other students. This suggests a different motivational interpretation for depression in this population.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Depression in learning-disabled youth is often viewed through neuropsychological or motivational lenses.
  • Previous research linked perfectionism scales to depression in non-learning-disabled college students.
  • No studies explored this relationship in college students with learning disabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between multidimensional perfectionism and depression in learning-disabled undergraduates.
  • To compare findings with previous research on non-learning-disabled college students.

Main Methods:

  • Administered measures of multidimensional perfectionism, anxiety, and depression.
  • Sample included 110 learning-disabled undergraduate men and women.

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Main Results:

  • Only one social scale of perfectionism positively correlated with depression scores.
  • This correlation was weaker than observed in non-learning-disabled students.
  • Anxiety measures were also administered but not detailed in the abstract's results.

Conclusions:

  • The link between perfectionism and depression appears weaker in learning-disabled college students.
  • Findings support a motivational interpretation of depression for this demographic.
  • Further research is needed to fully understand depression in learning-disabled students.