Perfectionism and Daily Coping and Emotion Regulation Processes: A Trial of Two Explanatory Feedback Interventions

The PCPM-EFI provides individualized explanatory feedback of daily diary data demonstrating how stress and coping processes for each participant trigger and maintain their negative and positive mood. The feedback consists of five separate modules: (a) how changes in perceived criticism, self-blame, perceived control, avoidant coping, and event stress are connected to increases negative affect; (b) how changes in perceived social support, positive reinterpretation, perceived control, avoidant coping, and problem-focused coping are linked to increases in positive affect; (c) how self-critical perfectionism and maladaptive stress and coping tendencies explain enduring mood problems; (d) how healthy striving, adaptive appraisal, and coping tendencies can identify personal strengths; and, most important, (e) what the person needs to do to manage and improve his or her mood.

The PERPM-EFI provides individualized explanatory feedback of daily diary data demonstrating how stress and emotion regulation processes for each participant trigger and maintain their negative and positive mood. The feedback consists of five separate modules: (a) how changes in event stress, mindfulness, self-compassion, experiential avoidance, and rumination are connected to increases in negative affect, (b) how changes in event stress, mindfulness, reappraisal, self-compassion, and experiential avoidance are linked to increases in positive affect, (c) how self-critical perfectionism and maladaptive stress and emotion regulation tendencies explain enduring mood problems, (d) how healthy striving, adaptive appraisal, and emotion regulation tendencies can identify personal strengths, and, most important, (e) what the person needs to do to manage and improve his or her mood.