Family patterns of perfectionism: An examination of college students and their parents

We examined patterns of perfectionism among college students and their biol ogical parents in a sample of 188 undergraduates from intact families. Rati ngs (self vs. other) showed the greatest degree of convergence when daughte rs were either the target or the rater. Levels of self-oriented perfectioni sm in students were positively associated with the levels characterizing th e same-sex parent, but unrelated (father-daughter) or negatively related (m other-son) to the levels characterizing the opposite-sex parent. Finally, p arents' other-oriented perfectionism was not significantly related to stude nts' socially prescribed perfectionism.