Does perfectionism in bipolar disorder pedigrees mediate associations between anxiety/stress and mood symptoms?

International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Table 3 Generalized Estimating Equations Using Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale Dimensions and Goal Attainment Values to Predict Chronic Depressive and Chronic Hypomanic/Biphasic symptoms

Variable	Beta	SE
Predicting chronic unipolar symptoms
Age	−0.02	0.02
Gender	−0.19	0.47***
ISS: depressed	−1.42	0.63*
ISS: hypomanic	0.10	0.82
ISS: mixed	−1.04	1.57
GBI: hypomanic/biphasic	0.31	0.02***
DAS: goal attainment factor	−0.02	0.04
MPS: self-oriented perfectionism	0.21	0.06***
MPS: socially-prescribed perfectionism	−0.04	0.05
Predicting chronic hypomanic/biphasic symptoms
Age	−0.002	0.03
Gender	3.25	1.05**
ISS: depressed	−1.04	0.50
ISS: hypomanic	−5.41	1.45***
ISS: mixed	−4.46	2.49^#
GBI: depression	1.34	0.13***
DAS: goal attainment factor	0.14	0.07^#
MPS: self-oriented perfectionism	−0.04	0.13
MPS: socially-prescribed perfectionism	0.23	0.09**

ISS Internal State Scale, GBI General Behaviour Inventory, DAS Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale, MPS MultiDimensional Perfectionism Scale
^# p < 0.10, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001