Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.
Psychol Bull. 2019 Apr;145(4):430-432. doi: 10.1037/bul0000167.
In a cross-temporal meta-analysis, Curran and Hill (2019) demonstrated significant increases in college students' perfectionism over the last 27 years. One possible explanation for this historical trend offered by the authors is that parents became increasingly controlling during the same period. We are critical about this explanation for 2 reasons. First, in the development of their explanation, Curran and Hill do not differentiate clearly between 2 meanings of the concept of parental control, that is, control as structure and control as pressure. This distinction is important because past research found only control as pressure to be implied directly in the development of perfectionism. Second, the few studies on historical changes in parenting available do not point to an increase in controlling parenting (understood as control as pressure), on the contrary. In our view, it is premature to hold parents responsible for the rise of perfectionism. Systematic cohort-sequential studies are needed to directly address the role of parents in historical changes in perfectionism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
在跨时间的元分析中，Curran 和 Hill（2019）表明，在过去的 27 年中，大学生的完美主义呈显著上升趋势。作者提出的这种历史趋势的一个可能解释是，在同一时期，父母变得越来越控制。我们对这个解释持批评态度，原因有二。首先，在他们的解释发展过程中，Curran 和 Hill 没有清楚地区分父母控制概念的两个含义，即结构控制和压力控制。这种区别很重要，因为过去的研究发现，只有压力控制直接暗示了完美主义的发展。其次，关于育儿方式历史变化的少数研究并没有指出控制型育儿（即压力控制）的增加，相反。在我们看来，将完美主义的上升归咎于父母还为时过早。需要进行系统的队列序列研究，以直接探讨父母在完美主义的历史变化中的作用。（心理学文献信息服务系统记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
