LDS Doctrine and Perfectionism

LDS Doctrine and Perfectionism

Brittany Mealey
Jeffrey Bernhardt
Michael Davison
Andrea Riggs

Mealey, Brittany; Bernhardt, Jeffrey; Davison, Michael; Riggs, Andrea; Phillips, Camilla; Steffen, Patrick

Abstract

Perfectionism has become a topic of widespread interest within the social sciences. Many of the studies testing and measuring perfectionism have been associated with constructs such as need achievement and level of aspiration. Though it has been found that there may be links between religiosity and perfectionism (Edgington et. al, 2008; Zohar et. al, 2005), only a small amount of studies have actually researched if and how perfectionism is affected by religiosity.