The Mediating Role of Rumination, Catastrophizing, and Self-Blame on the Relationship between Socially Prescribed Perfectionism and Self-Esteem.

493 primarily white, female participants completed a series of questionnaires measuring self-esteem, perfectionism, and emotion regulation. Socially prescribed perfectionism was negatively related to 1) self-liking through the mediators of self-blame and catastrophizing, and 2) self-competence through the mediators of self-blame, rumination, and catastrophizing.