Congratulations to our own Emily Murphy for being offered a SSHRC CGS-Master’s Program award to support her second-year master’s level work examining the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model in youth!
Taylor, S., Sirois, F. M., & Molnar, D.S. (in press). Health Psychology, 4th Edition, Canadian Edition. McGraw-Hill Education.
We are excited that our new book Health Psychology, 4th Edition, Canadian Edition, published by McGraw-Hill Education Canada will soon be available. Stay tuned!
Sirois, F. M., Molnar, D. S., & Hirsch, J. (in press). A meta-analytic and conceptual update on the associations between procrastination and perfectionism. European Journal of Personality.
Procrastination is commonly believed to be a symptom of perfectionism. Indeed, it is not difficult to picture the perfectionist delaying progress on his or her task by focusing on frivolous details in an effort to ensure that the final product is absolutely perfect or putting off the task completely for fear that his or her ideal outcomes will never be able to be achieved. However, are we correct to make these assumptions? Our new meta-analysis exploring associations between perfectionism and procrastination from the lens of self-regulation theory indicates that it depends on the type of perfectionism. Perfectionistic concerns is a type of perfectionism that includes being extremely self-critical, preoccupied with others’ evaluations of you, sensing a large discrepancy between who you are and who you want or feel you ought to be, and an inability to feel satisfied with yourself, whereas perfectionistic strivings concerns the tendency to set excessively high personal standards that are often unrealistic and to demand nothing less than perfection from the self. Our new research indicates that perfectionistic concerns is associated with greater procrastination. However, perfectionistic strivings is associated with less procrastination. Thus, our research indicates that procrastination and perfectionistic concerns may share similar self-evaluative tendencies that undermine goal achievement, whereas perfectionistic strivings may actually foster timely goal achievement.
Congratulations to our own Emily Murphy for being offered an Ontario Graduate Scholarship to conduct her master’s level work examining the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model in youth!!!
Award recipient, OGS, Perfectionism research
Categories: perfectionism
New study finds that romantic couples influence each other’s heavy drinking over the years.
Bartel, S., Sherry, S., Molnar, D. S., Mushquash, A., Leonard, K., Flett, G., & Stewart, S. (2017). Do romantic partners influence each other’s heavy episodic drinking? support for the partner influence hypothesis in a three-year longitudinal study. Addictive Behaviors. 69, 55-58.
Couples, drinking, relationships
Categories: well-being
New study shows that fetal tobacco exposure, particularly during the third trimester of pregnancy, prospectively predicts restricted growth at birth, yet greater obesity risk by 2 years of age. Coming soon: Molnar, D. S., Rancourt, D., Schlauch, R., Wen, X., Huestis, M. A., & Eiden, R. D. (in press). Tobacco exposure and conditional weight-for-length-gain by 2 years of age. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.
Title: Socially prescribed perfectionism and guilt in new mothers: A longitudinal investigation. Paper to be presented in G. L. Flett (Chair), The Costs and Consequences of Perfectionism Across Life Contexts: A Multidimensional Analysis. Symposium accepted for presentation at the 29th APS Annual Convention
Authors: Danielle S. Molnar, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University; Gordon L. Flett, Department of Psychology, York University; Paul L. Hewitt, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia; Avi Besser, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Sapir Academic College, Israel
Please refer to the following list of conferences that Dr. Molnar and members of the lab will be attending in 2017. Look forward to seeing everyone there!
Accepted Presentations:
Title: Childhood Aggression in a High-Risk Sample: Developmental Cascade Model of Socioeconomic Adversity, Parenting and Child Conscience
Authors: Idean Ettekal, Research Institution on Addictions, University at Buffalo; Amanda Nickerson, UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention; Danielle S. Molnar, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University; Pamela Schuetze, SUNY Buffalo State; Rina Eiden, Research Institution on Addictions, University at Buffalo
Title: Interaction Effect of Prenatal Risk, Maternal Warmth and Physiological Reactivity on Toddler Externalizing Behaviors
Authors: Pamela Schuetze, SUNY Buffalo State; Danielle Molnar, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University; Rina Eiden, Research Institution on Addictions, University at Buffalo; Shannon Shisler, Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo
New research links fetal tobacco exposure, particularly during the third trimester of pregnancy, with poorer attention in infants as early as 9 months of age. For more information please see Shisler, S., Eiden, R., Molnar, D. S., Schuetze, P., Coles, C., Huestis, M., Colder, C. (2016). Effects of fetal tobacco exposure on focused attention in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 46, 1-10.