The vision of perfectionism as a multidimensional variable has gained weight in scientific evidence as social functioning sets more rigorous performance standards of an individual or group differentiation in any field (e.g., academic, sports, work, social, religious...). There is a need to establish how we achieve the goals we set ourselves in any field of action, thanks mainly to the creation of valid and reliable instruments to measure it. In todays societies, there is an increasing emphasis on how to respond to the demands of the environment as quickly as possible, being effective and achieving the best results. The demands of the environment make it possible to stimulate contextually (if they are seen as traits) and to construct perfectionist patterns and attitudes (if they are understood as learned cognitions or behaviours), which are usually associated with agonising feelings of devaluation, incapacity or psychological vulnerability. Perfectionists are characterized by setting their goals too high as they are always on a quest to do things perfectly. In cases where they cannot do something perfectly, they do not even try, or they live with significant suffering that floods their lives, causing feelings of dissatisfaction and affecting their self-esteem, mainly because their attention is reduced to focusing only on the end of the tasks they perform, leaving the development of the task in the background. People who seek to do things perfectly are rigid when it comes to carrying them out, causing difficulty in adapting to changes, and preventing them from enjoying the present moment or taking advantage of their mistakes to improve themselves. In the same way, we can say that they reject reality, or at least they are reluctant to experience it in a way that is very different from the way they shape it. It is impossible to make everything perfect, as all people make mistakes, but perfectionists conceive failure as an expression of their maladjustment and for this reason, they generate high levels of anxiety, becoming people who try to control everything around them.
Preface; Perfectionism, Catastrophic Thoughts and History of Injuries. Relevance for Psychological Vulnerability in Young Spanish Athletes; Fear of Making Mistakes and Perfectionism in Adolescents: How Much of It Leads to an Aggressive Response to Others?; Perfectionism and Health-Related Behaviors: Why What I Do to Be Healthy is Healthy, or Can Become Unhealthy?; The Spanish Version of the Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale-Junior Form: Psychometric Validation and Associations with School Refusal; The Price of Perfection: The Link Between Perfectionism and Suicidal Behavior; Parents Perfectionism and Its Relation to Academic Performance, Motivation, Use of Self-Handicapping Strategies and Self-Concept: A Model; Perfectionism and Competitiveness in Sports and Performance Environments; Perfectionism and Anorexia Nervosa; Perfectionism, Self-Efficacy and Affect: Differential Effects on the Performance of Athletes According to Their Feedback; Passion, Perfectionism and Stage Anxiety in Professional Musicians; Alexithymia and Perfectionism in Nurses; I Should Be Perfect: Perfectionistic Cognitions in Athletes; When Dysfunction Has Its Origin in the Trait. Achieving Flexibility in the Perfectionist; Index.
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