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  2. Perfectionism (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Stanley Kubrick, an American filmmaker, was notorious for his perfectionism while making films. [1] [2] [3]Perfectionism, in psychology, is a broad personality trait characterized by a person's concern with striving for flawlessness and perfection and is accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations.

  3. Interpersonal circumplex - Wikipedia

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    Birtchnell [6] argued that each end of the two axes of the interpersonal circumplex can be manifested as either positive and adaptive interpersonal behaviour or as negative and maladaptive interpersonal behaviour. Working in psychotherapy, he explored whether negative/maladaptive behaviour could be reduced over time through therapy.

  4. List of maladaptive schemas - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of maladaptive schemas, often called early maladaptive schemas, in schema therapy, a theory and method of psychotherapy.An early maladaptive schema is a pervasive self-defeating or dysfunctional theme or pattern of memories, emotions, and physical sensations, developed during childhood or adolescence and elaborated throughout one's lifetime, that often has the form of a belief ...

  5. Personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental health conditions characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the culture. [1] These patterns develop early, are inflexible, and are associated with significant distress or ...

  6. Narcissistic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings. Narcissistic personality disorder is one of the sub-types of the broader category known as ...

  7. Social undermining - Wikipedia

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    Research has shown that social undermining exists in a separate and distinct continuum when looking at positive workplace behavior (e.g. social support). [ citation needed ] Social undermining can arise through interactions with co-workers and supervisors; these interactions have an effect on the workers that are being undermined and can affect ...

  8. Coping - Wikipedia

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    Maladaptive techniques are only effective as a short-term rather than long-term coping process. Examples of maladaptive behavior strategies include anxious avoidance, dissociation, escape (including self-medication), use of maladaptive humor styles such as self-defeating humor, procrastination, rationalization, safety behaviors, and sensitization.

  9. Occupational stress - Wikipedia

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    Research on the ability of the employees to cope with the specific workplace stressors is equivocal; coping in the workplace may even be counterproductive. [ 26 ] [ 10 ] Pearlin and Schooler [ 27 ] advanced the view that because work roles, unlike such personally organized roles as parent and spouse, tend to be impersonally organized, work ...