Education News – Grace Smith
“A new five-year study of primary school children in Singapore performed by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) found that young people with parents who are intrusive had a higher likelihood of being hypercritical of themselves. And over a period of years, this tendency rises. Kids in the study who exhibited high or increased levels of self-criticalness also were reported to have raised levels of depression or symptoms of anxiety. The study was launched to examine how maladaptive perfectionism, or the “bad form of perfectionism,” develops in Singapore’s primary school students. Assistant Professor Ryan Hong, the leader of the study, which was conducted by researchers from the Department of Psychology at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Services, said:.”(more)