perfectionism
Powers, T. A., Moore, E., Levine, S., Holding, A., Zuroff, D. C., & Koestner, R. (2023). Autonomy support buffers the impact of self-criticism on depression. Personality and Individual Differences, 200, 111876. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111876
Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, T., Morin, A. J. S., Forest, J., Fouquereau, E., & Gillet, N. (2022). A longitudinal examination of nurses’ need satisfaction profiles: A latent transition analysis. Current Psychology, 41, 4837-4859. doi: 10.1007/s12144-020-00972-1
Gillet, N., Morin, A. J. S., Huyghebaert-Zouaghi, T., Alibran, E., Barrault, S., & Vanhove-Meriaux, C. (2020). Students’ need satisfaction profiles: Similarity and change over the course of a university semester. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 69(4), 1396-1437. doi: 10.1111/apps.12227
Campbell, R., Boone, L., Vansteenkiste, M., & Soenens, B. (2018). Psychological need frustration as a transdiagnostic process in associations of self-critical perfectionism with depressive symptoms and eating pathology. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(10) doi: 10.1002/jclp.22628
Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Boone, L., & Brenning, K. (2017). Antecedents of provided autonomy support and psychological control within close friendships: The role of evaluative concerns perfectionism and basic psychological needs. Personality and Individual Differences, 108, 149-156. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.024
Nguyen, T.-v. T., & Deci, E. L. (2016). Can it be good to set the bar high? The role of motivational regulation in moderating the link from high standards to academic well-being. Learning and Individual Differences, 45, 245-251. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2015.12.020
Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Soenens, B., Boone, L., Vandenkerckhove, B., Stemgee, E., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2016). Evaluative concerns perfectionism and coping with failure: Effects on rumination, avoidance, and acceptance. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 114-119. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.063
Boone, L., Vansteenkiste, M., Soenens, B., Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., & Verstuyf, J. (2014). Self-Critical Perfectionism and Binge Eating Symptoms: A Longitudinal Test of the Intervening Role of Psychological Need Frustration. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 61(3), 363-373. doi: 10.1037/a0036418
Boone, L., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Braet, Caroline (2012). Is there a perfectionist in each of us? An experimental study on perfectionism and eating disorder symptoms. Appetite, 59, 531-540. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.06.015
Vansteenkiste, M., Smeets, S., Soenens, B., Lens, W., Matos, L., & Deci, E. L. (2010). Autonomous and controlled regulation of performance-approach goals: Their relations to perfectionism and educational outcomes. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 333–353. doi: 10.1007/s11031-010-9188-3
Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyckx, K., Luyten, P., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2008). Maladaptive perfectionism as an intervening variable between psychological control and adolescent depressive symptoms: A three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 465-474.
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Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Vandereycken, W., Luyten, P., Sierens, E., & Goossens, L. (2008). Perceived parental psychological control and eating disordered symptoms: Maladaptive perfectionism as a possible intervening variable. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 196, 144-152.
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Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2006). In search of the sources of psychologically controlling parenting: The role of parental separation anxiety and parental maladaptive perfectionism. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 16, 539-559.
Miquelon, P., Vallerand, R. J., Grouzet, F. M., & Cardinal, G. (2005). Perfectionism, academic motivation, and psychological adjustment: An integrative model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 913-924.
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Soenens, B., Elliot, A. J., Goossens, L., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyten, P., & Duriez, B. (2005). The intergenerational transmission of perfectionism: Parents’ psychological control as intervening variable. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 358-366.
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Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyten, P., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2005). Maladaptive perfectionistic self-representations: The mediational link between psychological control and adjustment. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 487-498.
Richards, D. K., Schwebel, F. J., Field, C. A., Pearson, M. R., & Addictions Research Team. (2024). The associations of basic psychological need satisfaction and need frustration with cannabis-related outcomes in a multi-site sample of college students. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 56(2), 177-186. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2023.2191605
Herchenroeder, L., Kracke-Bock, J., Rentia, S., & Dodge, T. (2024). Application of self-determination theory to substance use and its treatment: A scoping review of the literature. Substance Use & Misuse, Advance online publication doi: 10.1080/10826084.2024.2352622
Powers, T. A., Moore, E., Levine, S., Holding, A., Zuroff, D. C., & Koestner, R. (2023). Autonomy support buffers the impact of self-criticism on depression. Personality and Individual Differences, 200, 111876. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111876
Tanaka, A., Tamura, A., Ishii, R., Nakazato, N., Ohtani, K., Sakaki, M., Suzuki, T., & Murayama, K. (2023). Longitudinal association between maternal autonomy support and controlling parenting and adolescents’ depressive symptoms. Journal of Youth Adolescence, 52, 1058-1073. doi: 10.1007/s10964-022-01722-1
Martela, F., Lehmus-Sun, A., Parker, P. D., Pessi, A. B., & Ryan, R. M. (2022). Needs and well-being across Europe: Basic psychological needs are closely connected with well-being, meaning, and symptoms of depression in 27 European countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(5), 501–514. doi: 10.1177/19485506221113678
Conigrave, J. H., Bradshaw, E. L., Conigrave, K. M., Ryan, R. M., Wilson, S., Perry, J., Doyle, M .F., & Lee, K. S. K. (2021). Alcohol consumption and dependence is linked to the extent that people experience need satisfaction while drinking alcohol in two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 16(23) doi: 10.1186/s13722-021-00231-z
Froiland, J. M., Worrell, F. C., Olenchak, F. R., & Kowalski, M. J. (2020). Positive and negative time attitudes, intrinsic motivation, behavioral engagement and substance use among urban adolescents. Addiction Research and Theory doi: 10.1080/16066359.2020.1857740
Lei, W., Liu, K., Li, N., Liang, X., Xiang, B., Huang, C., Zhang, J., Zheng, X., & Chen, J. (2019). Validation of the Chinese version General Causality Orientation Scale-Clinical Population and causality orientations assessing in major depressions. Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, 11(3), e12348. doi: 10.1111/appy.12348
Carey, T. M., Maillet, M. A., & Grouzet, F. M. (2019). Self-regulation of student drinking behavior: Strength-energy and self-determination theory perspectives. Motivation Science, 5(3), 202–219. doi: 10.1037/mot0000111
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Caudwell, K. M., Keech, J. J., Hamilton, K., Mullan, B. A., & Hagger, M. S. (2019). Reducing alcohol consumption during pre-drinking sessions: Testing an integrated behaviour-change model. Psychology and Health, 34(1), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2018.1518527
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Bradshaw, E. L., Sahdra, B.K., Calvo, R. A., Mrvaljevich, A., & Ryan, R. M. (2018). Users’ intrinsic goals linked to alcohol dependence risk level and engagement with the health promotion website, Hello Sunday Morning: Observational study. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Mental Health, 5(4), 1-8. doi: 10.2196/10022
Campbell, R., Boone, L., Vansteenkiste, M., & Soenens, B. (2018). Psychological need frustration as a transdiagnostic process in associations of self-critical perfectionism with depressive symptoms and eating pathology. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(10) doi: 10.1002/jclp.22628
Reut, N., & Kanat-Maymon, Y. (2017). Spouses' prenatal autonomous motivation to have a child and postpartum depression symptoms. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(10), 1808-1819. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22630
Brenning, K., & Soenens, B. (2017). A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Early Parenting Behaviors. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 73(12), 1729-1743. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22480
Caudwell, K. M., Mullan, B. A., & Hagger, M. S. (2016). . In , Combining motivational and volitional approaches to reducing excessive alcohol consumption in pre-drinkers: A theory-based intervention protocol (Vol 16, pp. 16(45)). : . doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2648-7
Leow, K., Lee, M.,, & Lynch, M. F. (2016). Big five personality and depressive symptoms: A self-determination theory perspective on students’ positive relationships with others. Ideas and research you can use: VISTAS, 28.
Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Vansteenkiste, M., Van Petegem, S., Raes, F., & Soenens, B. (2016). On the integration of need-related autobiographical memories among late adolescents and late adults: The role of depressive symptoms and self-congruence. European Journal of Personality doi: 10.1002/per.2079
Yu, C., Li, X., Wang, S., & Zhang, W. (2016). Teacher autonomy support reduces adolescent anxiety and depression: An 18-month longitudinal study. Journal of Adolescence, 49, 115-123. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.03.001
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Caudwell, K. M., & Hagger, M. S. (2015). Predicting alcohol pre-drinking in Australian undergraduate students using an integrated theoretical model. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 7, 188-213. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12044
Morse, D. S., Cerulli, C., Bedell, P., Wilson, J., Thomas, K., et al., & Williams, G. C. (2014). Meeting health and psychological needs of women in drug treatment court. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 46(2), 150-157. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2013.08.017
Rodriguez, Lindsey M., Knee, C. R., & Neighbors, Clayton (2013). Relationships can drive some to drink. Relationship-contingent self-esteem and drinking problems. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31(2), 270-290. doi: 10.1177/0265407513494037
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Zuroff, D. C., Koestner, R., & Moskowitz, D. S. (2012). Therapist's autonomy support and patient's self-criticism predict motivation during brief treatments for depression. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 31, 903-932. doi: 10.1521/jscp.2012.31.9.903
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Soenens, B., Park, S. Y., Vansteenkiste, M., & Mouratidis, A. (2012). Perceived parental psychological control and adolescent depressive experiences: A cross-cultural study with Belgian and South-Korean adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 261–272. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.05.001
Wormington, S. V., Anderson, K. G., & Corpus, J. H. (2011). The role of academic motivation in high school students' current and lifetime alcohol consumption: Adopting a self-determination theory perspective. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 72, 965-974. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2011.72.965
Smith, L. (2011). Self determination theory and potential applications to alcohol and drug abuse behaviors. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 55(2), 3-7. doi:
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Lu, Q., Uysal, A., & Teo, I. (2011). Need satisfaction and catastrophizing: Explaining the relationship among emotional ambivalence, pain, and depressive symptoms. Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 819-827. doi: 10.1177/1359105310392092
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McBride, C., Zuroff, D. C., Ravitz, P., Koestner, R., Moskowitz, D. S., Quilty, L., & Bagby, R. M. (2010). Autonomous and controlled motivation and interpersonal therapy for depression: Moderating role of recurrent depression. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 49, 529–545.
Hove, M. C., Parkhill, M. R., Neighbors, C., McConchie, J. M., & Fossos, N. (2010). Alcohol consumption and intimate partner violence perpetration among college students: The role of self-determination. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 71(1), 78–85. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2010.71.78
Groshkova, T. (2010). Motivation in substance misuse treatment. Addiction Research and Theory, 18(5), 494-510. doi: 10.3109/16066350903362875
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Gauthier, L., Guay, F., Senécal, C., & Pierce, T. (2010). Women's depressive symptoms during the transition to motherhood: The role of competence, relatedness, and autonomy. Journal of Health Psychology, 15(8), 1145-1156. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105310364170
Niemiec, C. P., Ryan, R. M., Patrick, H., Deci, E. L., & Williams, G. C. (2010). The energization of health-behavior change: Examining the associations among autonomous self-regulation, subjective vitality, depressive symptoms, and tobacco abstinence. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 5, 122-138. doi: 10.1080/17439760903569162
Chawla, N., Neighbors, C., Logan, D., Lewis, M. A., & Fossos, N (2009). The perceived approval of friends and parents as mediators of the relationship between self-determination and drinking. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70, 92-100. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2009.70.92
Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyckx, K., Luyten, P., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2008). Maladaptive perfectionism as an intervening variable between psychological control and adolescent depressive symptoms: A three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 465-474.
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Wong, M. M. (2008). Perceptions of parental involvement and autonomy support: Their relations with self-regulation, academic performance, substance use and resilience among adolescents. North American Journal of Psychology, 10(3), 497-518. doi:
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Zuroff, D. C., Koestner, R., Moskowitz, D. S., McBride, C., Bagby, M., & Marshall, M. (2007). Autonomous motivation for therapy: A new non-specific predictor of outcome in brief treatments of depression. Psychotherapy Research, 17, 137-148. doi: 10.1080/10503300600919380
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Donahue, E., Miquelon, P., Valois, P., Goulet, C., & Buist, A. (2006). A motivational model of performance-enhancing substance use in elite athletes. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28(4), 511-520. doi: 10.1123/jsep.28.4.511
Neighbors, C., Lewis, M. A., Bergstrom, R. L., & Larimer, M. E. (2006). . In , Being controlled by normative influences: Self-determination as a moderator of a normative feedback alcohol intervention (Vol 25, pp. 571-579). : . doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.25.5.571
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Evren, C., Saatçioglu, O., Dalbudak, E., Danismant, B., Çakmak, D., & Ryan, R. M. (2006). Factorial structure and reliability and validity of Turkish version treatment motivation questionnaire (TMQ) in alcohol dependents. Journal of Dependence, 7, 117-122. doi: 10.5350/DAJPN2010230305
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Wei, M., Shaffer, P. A., Young, S. K., & Zakalik, R. A. (2005). Adult attachment, shame, depression, and loneliness: The mediation role of basic psychological needs satisfaction. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52, 591-601. doi: 10.1037/0022-0167.52.4.591
Neighbors, C., Larimer, M. E., Geisner, I. M., & Knee, C. R. (2004). Feeling controlled and drinking motives among college students: Contingent self-esteem as a mediator. Self and Identity, 3, 207-224.
Neighbors, C., Walker, D. D., & Larimer, M. E. (2003). Expectancies and evaluations of alcohol effects among college students: Self-determination as a moderator. Journal of Studies in Alcohol, 64(2), 292-300. doi: 10.15288/jsa.2003.64.292
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