Sorjonen Kimmo, Melin Bo
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jul 2;16:1378482. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1378482. eCollection 2025.
A recent meta-analysis claimed increasing prospective effects between perfectionism and depressive symptoms. However, the effects were estimated while adjusting for a prior measurement of the outcome variable and it is known that such adjusted cross-lagged effects may be spurious due to correlations with residuals and regression to the mean.
We reanalyzed the same meta-analytic data as in the challenged study with alternative regression models.
Alternative models indicated contradictory increasing and decreasing prospective effects of perfectionism on depressive symptoms.
The present divergent findings suggested that the prospective effect of perfectionism on depressive symptoms may have been spurious. Consequently, the conclusions in the challenged meta-analysis, and the vulnerability model of perfectionism and depressive symptoms in general, can be called into question. It is important for researchers to be aware of the limitations of cross-lagged panel analyses, and of correlations in general, in order not to overinterpret findings.
最近的一项荟萃分析表明，完美主义与抑郁症状之间的前瞻性效应在增加。然而，这些效应是在对结果变量的先前测量进行调整后估计得出的，并且众所周知，由于与残差的相关性和均值回归，这种调整后的交叉滞后效应可能是虚假的。
我们使用替代回归模型重新分析了与受质疑研究相同的荟萃分析数据。
替代模型表明，完美主义对抑郁症状的前瞻性效应存在相互矛盾的增加和减少情况。
目前的不同研究结果表明，完美主义对抑郁症状的前瞻性效应可能是虚假的。因此，受质疑的荟萃分析中的结论，以及一般意义上的完美主义与抑郁症状的脆弱性模型，都可能受到质疑。研究人员必须意识到交叉滞后面板分析的局限性以及一般相关性，以免过度解读研究结果。
