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Psychology
Canada
2023

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Psychology D-index 92 Citations 32,667 252 World Ranking 589 National Ranking 26

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Psychology in Canada Leader Award

2019 - CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science, Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Social psychology
  • Anxiety
  • Psychotherapist

Paul L. Hewitt mostly deals with Perfectionism, Personality, Clinical psychology, Developmental psychology and Anxiety. Perfectionism is a subfield of Social psychology that he studies. His work deals with themes such as Eating disorders, Self-efficacy and Dysfunctional family, which intersect with Personality.

Paul L. Hewitt has included themes like Procrastination and Psychological distress in his Clinical psychology study. The Developmental psychology study combines topics in areas such as Interpersonal communication, Neuroticism, Psychopathology and Personality development. His study in the field of Anxiety disorder also crosses realms of Correlation.

His most cited work include:

  • Perfectionism in the self and social contexts: Conceptualization, assessment, and association with psychopathology. (2120 citations)
  • Perfectionism : theory, research, and treatment (556 citations)
  • Perfectionism and maladjustment: An overview of theoretical, definitional, and treatment issues. (428 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Paul L. Hewitt mainly investigates Perfectionism, Clinical psychology, Personality, Social psychology and Developmental psychology. His Perfectionism research integrates issues from Interpersonal communication, Big Five personality traits, Cognition and Anxiety. His Interpersonal communication research includes elements of Psychotherapist and Interpersonal relationship.

His Clinical psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Psychiatry, Depression and Association. His studies examine the connections between Personality and genetics, as well as such issues in Psychometrics, with regards to Test validity and Personality test. His Self-concept study in the realm of Developmental psychology connects with subjects such as Disconnection.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Perfectionism (70.36%)
  • Clinical psychology (53.75%)
  • Personality (24.90%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Perfectionism (70.36%)
  • Clinical psychology (53.75%)
  • Psychotherapist (10.67%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Perfectionism, Clinical psychology, Psychotherapist, Interpersonal communication and Trait. The study incorporates disciplines such as Big Five personality traits, Personality and Cognition in addition to Perfectionism. His Personality research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Mindfulness, Construct, Health psychology and Empirical research.

His Clinical psychology research incorporates elements of Anxiety, Vulnerability and Depressive symptoms. His study in the field of Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Psychodynamics and Group psychotherapy is also linked to topics like Psychodynamic-interpersonal psychotherapy and Group. Paul L. Hewitt interconnects Longitudinal study, Interpersonal relationship, Moderation and Mediation in the investigation of issues within Interpersonal communication.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • The perniciousness of perfectionism: A meta-analytic review of the perfectionism-suicide relationship. (61 citations)
  • Why does socially prescribed perfectionism place people at risk for depression? A five-month, two-wave longitudinal study of the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model (13 citations)
  • Perfectionism and academic difficulties in graduate students: Testing incremental prediction and gender moderation (9 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Social psychology
  • Anxiety
  • Psychotherapist

His primary scientific interests are in Perfectionism, Clinical psychology, Distress, Developmental psychology and Multidimensional perfectionism. Perfectionism is a subfield of Social psychology that Paul L. Hewitt investigates. He combines subjects such as Anxiety, Cognition and Depressive symptoms with his study of Clinical psychology.

His Distress research includes elements of Mental health, Mental illness, Social anxiety and Treatment resistant. His work in the fields of Developmental psychology, such as Relationship satisfaction, overlaps with other areas such as Perspective and Presentation. His studies deal with areas such as Targeted interventions, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychological distress, Treatment seeking and Etiology as well as Multidimensional perfectionism.

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Best Publications

Perfectionism in the self and social contexts: Conceptualization, assessment, and association with psychopathology.

Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1991)

4585 Citations

Dimensions of perfectionism in unipolar depression.

Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1991)

1102 Citations

Perfectionism and maladjustment: An overview of theoretical, definitional, and treatment issues.

Gordon L. Flett;Paul L. Hewitt.
(2002)

1067 Citations

Dimensions of perfectionism, daily stress, and depression: a test of the specific vulnerability hypothesis

Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1993)

826 Citations

Perfectionism : theory, research, and treatment

Gordon L. Flett;Paul L. Hewitt.
(2002)

744 Citations

The multidimensional perfectionism scale : reliability, validity, and psychometric properties in psychiatric samples

Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett;Wendy Turnbull-Donovan;Samuel F. Mikail.
Psychological Assessment (1991)

725 Citations

The interpersonal expression of perfection: perfectionistic self-presentation and psychological distress

Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett;Simon B. Sherry;Marie Habke.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2003)

719 Citations

Perfectionism and Depression: Longitudinal Assessment of a Specific Vulnerability Hypothesis

Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett;Evelyn Ediger.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1996)

666 Citations

Perfectionism traits and perfectionistic self-presentation in eating disorder attitudes, characteristics, and symptoms

Paul L. Hewitt;Gordon L. Flett;B A Evelyn Ediger.
International Journal of Eating Disorders (1995)

633 Citations

Perfectionism in children and their parents: A developmental analysis.

Gordon L. Flett;Paul L. Hewitt;Joan M. Oliver;Silvana Macdonald.
(2002)

608 Citations

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