The relationships between perfectionism, pathological worry and generalised anxiety disorder

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 Zero-order correlations between gender, perfectionism, pathological worry, depression, and a principal GAD diagnosis (n = 42)

	Gender	CM	PS	DA	CPQ	PSWQ	BDI-II	Principal GAD
Gender	-	.27	.13	.00	.01	.34*	-.03	.10
CM		-	.31*	.42**	.48**	.54**	.49**	.10
PS			-	.45**	.55**	.43**	.35*	.25
DA				-	.60**	.42**	.46**	.46**
CPQ					-	.54**	.55**	.19
PSWQ						-	.37*	.26
BDI-II^a							-	.14
Principal GAD								-

Note. CM: Concern over Mistakes subscale [13]; PS: Personal Standards subscale [13]; DA: Doubts about Actions subscale [13]; CPQ: Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire [18]; PSWQ: Penn State Worry Questionnaire [16]; BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory-II [27].
^aCorrelations for the BDI-II were calculated for 38 participants as 4 participants did not complete the measure.
*p < .05; **p < .01.

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