School of Sport, York St John University.
Centre for Motivation and Health Behaviour Change, Department for Health, University of Bath.
Psychol Bull. 2019 Apr;145(4):433-435. doi: 10.1037/bul0000189.
We respond to Soenens and Vansteenkiste's (2019) commentary on our meta-analysis (Curran & Hill, 2019) that evidenced increases in college students' perfectionism from 1989 to 2016. In speculating on possible reasons for the increase, we argued that increases in anxious and controlling parenting could partly account for this trend. Soenens and Vansteenkiste argue that in doing so we did not differentiate between parental control as structure and parental control as pressure, with only the latter being important for the development of perfectionism. They also argue that when this distinction is made, research suggests that parental control as pressure is decreasing. Finally, they caution for the risk of parent blame. In our response, we acknowledge the potential importance of the distinction between parental control as structure and parental control as pressure but note that so far this distinction has not been common in perfectionism research. We also acknowledge that the evidence provided by Soenens and Vansteenkiste could be suggestive of declining control as pressure. However, we highlight that our arguments hinged on a wider array of evidence that placed changes in parental behavior in context of broader social change and multiple pathways to increases in perfectionism. We close our response by agreeing that parents are not to blame for increasing perfectionism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
我们回应了 Soenens 和 Vansteenkiste（2019 年）对我们的元分析（Curran 和 Hill，2019 年）的评论，该评论表明从 1989 年到 2016 年，大学生的完美主义有所增加。在推测这种增加的可能原因时，我们认为焦虑和控制型父母养育方式的增加可能部分解释了这一趋势。Soenens 和 Vansteenkiste 认为，我们这样做并没有区分父母控制作为结构和父母控制作为压力，只有后者对完美主义的发展很重要。他们还认为，当做出这种区分时，研究表明父母的压力控制正在减少。最后，他们警告父母可能会受到指责。在我们的回应中，我们承认在父母控制作为结构和父母控制作为压力之间做出区分的潜在重要性，但指出到目前为止，这种区分在完美主义研究中并不常见。我们还承认，Soenens 和 Vansteenkiste 提供的证据可能表明压力控制在下降。然而，我们强调，我们的论点取决于更广泛的证据，这些证据将父母行为的变化置于更广泛的社会变化和导致完美主义增加的多种途径的背景下。最后，我们同意父母不应为完美主义的增加而受到指责。（APA，2019 年版权所有）。
