The Perfect Victim? Assessing Prospective Associations between Multidimensional Trait Perfectionism and Peer Victimization Among Adolescents.

We assessed associations between perfectionism and peer victimization in a sample of 302 community adolescents assessed on four occasions approximately 7 months apart using autoregressive cross-lagged path analyses. Findings support a reciprocal-causality model in which multidimensional trait perfectionism predicts negative psychological outcomes and negative psychosocial outcomes predict multidimensional trait perfectionism.