Title

Assessing the Role of Motivation in the Relationship between Perfectionism & Emotion Dysregulation

Creator

Athanasoula, Danai

Abstract

Perfectionism has been associated with the use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. This research aimed to explore the role of motivation to regulate emotion in the aforementioned relationship.

Participants completed measures of perfectionism and emotion regulation, followed by a mood induction task and a stimulus selection task.

Results showed that perfectionism predicted the use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. However, participants overall showed motivation to repair their mood, selecting positive images more often than sad or neutral ones. No significant interaction between perfectionism and image type was found, providing evidence against the notion that perfectionists intentionally maintain negative mood.

Keywords

perfectionism,

emotion regulation

motivated emotion regulation

Subject

Psychology

Date Available

May 22, 2025

Type

Research Project

Course

PS 4935 Final Year Project 2

Instructor

Orfanidou, Eleni

Session

Poster Session

Location

Deree Corridor

Event

Year 2025 | 9th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium