(1) I feel like my movies need that and they respond to that and so I don't know if I see it as perfectionism or that I like to keep working on it."
(2) Finally, a study with 77 psychiatric patients shows that self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism relate differentially to indices of personality disorders and other psychological maladjustment.
(3) The authors suggest that patterns of maternal perfectionism and self-sacrifice combined with paternal entitlement makes sexual maturity particularly threatening for female children in these families, and may partially explain the greater incidence of anorexia nervosa in women, and its explosive incidence in adolescence.
(4) A multidimensional approach to the study of perfectionism is warranted, particularly in terms of the association between perfectionism and maladjustment.
(5) It was found that the depressed patients had higher levels of self-oriented perfectionism than did either the psychiatric or normal control subjects.
(6) Twenty-three volunteer subjects were compared with 23 (matched) control subjects on self and parental ratings of anxiety, depression, shyness-sensitivity, sleeping difficulties, perfectionism, psychosomatic problems (unrelated to headache), other behavioural disturbances, major life stress events and parental expectations (i.e.
(7) The family dog is the first victim in Funny Games , several horses have their throats slit in The Time of the Wolf , and Benny's Video begins with the butchery of a squealing pig – Haneke's perfectionism required the sacrifice of three porkers.
(8) The present study employed a multidimensional approach to examine the association between perfectionism and suicide threat.
(9) The most important socioenvironmental and behavioral factors were marital turmoil in 44%, school activity in 32%, and perfectionism in 30%.
(10) Both "reclusive" – or just intensely private – and gestating movies over decades with intense perfectionism, each man has constructed a genre distinct unto itself, built on an instantly recognisable style and underpinned by complete creative control.
(11) This article describes perfectionism, or the holding of and striving for unrealistically high standards, and presents two studies undertaken to investigate the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the Perfectionism Scale (PS; Burns, 1980).
(12) Analysis of the responses reveals that attitudes to diagnostic perfectionism differ from one disease to another.
(13) The forced hold-back on part of the finance suppliers (National Health Organization and insurances) and, on the opposite side, the perfectionizing possibilities from the dental office and the dental laboratory, combined with the quality need wanted by the patients, are an area of conflict for everybody.
(14) He is, they say, a virtual hermit in his seven-bedroom north London home, a fearful wreck persecuted by his own perfectionism.
(15) She has been suggested in the past as a future director of the Royal Ballet; it would be something to see her try to apply her perfectionism to others, but she says she has no desire for it.
(16) The patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder scored significantly higher than the healthy comparison subjects on all eight subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory: drive for thinness, bulimia, body dissatisfaction, ineffectiveness, perfectionism, interpersonal distrust, interoceptive awareness, and maturity fears.
(17) This article attempted to demonstrate that the perfectionism construct is multidimensional, comprising both personal and social components, and that these components contribute to severe levels of psychopathology.
(18) The symptomatology expresses an ongoing conflict between resistance and resignation by restlessness, aggressivity and withdrawal on the one hand, and by low self esteem, pseudo-adult behavior and perfectionism on the other.
(19) Although Jobs was idolised by Apple fans, he was not universally admired, partly because of his perfectionism, secrecy and hard-driving management style.
(20) Compared with a control group randomly selected from the remainder of the hospital patient population, obsessive-compulsive manifestations of rumination, ritualistic behavior, excessive cleanliness, excessive orderliness, perfectionism, miserliness, rigidity, and scrupulousness and self-righteousness were all significantly associated with the eating disorder patient group.
Strive
Definition:
(v. i.) To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
(v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
(v. i.) To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
(n.) An effort; a striving.
(n.) Strife; contention.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
(2) "I am doing the best for my child, helping her strive towards her dreams.
(3) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(4) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
(5) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(6) We have strived to take a systemic approach to the study of the structure, function, and regulation of adenosine receptors and the transmembrane signalling processes that they activate.
(7) The question of German leadership, however, gets mixed up with a second, yet different question: Does all of this also mean that Berlin strives for a "German Europe"?
(8) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
(9) The mental health professional can strive to influence future public policy as patient advocate and nonpartisan educator.
(10) By participation we mean one's identification of his ego with a person(s), an object, or a symbolic construct outside himself, and his striving to lose his separate identity by fusion with this other object or symbol.
(11) Six lessons emerge from our analysis: Expect reform models to change over time; strive for predictability and continuity in the reform; encourage behavior changes through the use of incentives; use special administrative or political channels to simplify the reform; expect reform models to converge over time; and implementation difficulties can be predicted.
(12) Increasing positive motivation to treatment: striving to alleviate pain caused by decayed tooth, realization of aims not related to health, cultural aspects.
(13) A variation of this model was tested in a study of the separate as well as interactive effects of daily life events and personal strivings on psychological and physical well-being.
(14) Achieving a natural inframammary fold in the reconstructed breast is a challenging but essential aspect of the excellent result for which we strive.
(15) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
(16) Correlations were determined for male (n = 225) and female (n = 242) college students between sets of undesirable personality traits (anxiety, stress reactivity, anger, and alienation) and desirable personality traits (instrumentality, achievement strivings, and optimism measured by the Scheier-Carver [1987] Life Orientation Test), and a series of outcome variables related to health (self-reported health complaints and health maintenance behaviors and beliefs) and academic performance (academic expectations and actual grade point average).
(17) Clegg echoed the sentiment as he insisted the government would constantly strive to do more to promote growth, as well as reducing debt, but warned that voters should not expect quick results.
(18) Thanks to this the barorecptors of the aortic arch strive to maintain a high level of the arterial pressure and provide for a stabilization of hypertension.
(19) The physician, however, should constantly strive to improve the quality of life that will result from the means put at his disposal.
(20) PROBLEMS ARISE WHEN MORPHOLOGIC TERMINOLOGY FALLS INTO CATEGORIES WHICH: (1) Utilize numbers to replace words and (2) utilize words of such indeterminate meaning that definition depends entirely upon local usage.We should strive to replace any means of diagnosis that does not convey specificity with means capable of precision.