Such_Saturation
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The results suggest that maladaptive perfectionism is associated
with a lower cortisol response to a stressful task, consistent with
our hypothesis regarding chronic stress among individuals who
tend to be critical of their performance (Flett & Hewitt, 2002). This
is fitting given the fact that the maladaptive perfectionists in this
study were undergraduate students who are presented with performance
challenges on a daily basis (e.g., Weekes et al., 2006), and
self-criticism likely takes its toll on their physiological reactivity to
a stressor after multiple stressful events. Previous research has
suggested that chronic stress leads to blunted cortisol stress responses
because overactivation of the HPA axis eventually results
in a hypoactive HPA axis (Kudielka & Wüst, 2010).