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The Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale: correlations with depression in college students with learning disabilities
1California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks 91360-2787, USA.
Psychological Reports
|October 1, 1995
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.
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.
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.