David
Dunkley
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry
Lady Davis Institute
SMBD Jewish General Hospital
4333 Cote Ste. Catherine Road
Montreal, Quebec
H3T 1E4
Office: #303
Phone: 514-340-8222 ext. 5176
E-mail:
david.dunkley at mcgill.ca
Dr. Dunkley, based at the Institute of Community
and Family Psychiatry at the Lady Davis Institute - Jewish General Hospital, is
interested in the role of cognitive-personality vulnerability factors,
especially perfectionism, in psychopathology, in particular depression and
eating disorders. His research examines both stress generation (e.g., daily
stress, coping, increased cortisol secretion) and stress reactivity processes
that might explain why personal standards and self-criticism dimensions of
perfectionism are instigating and/or maintaining factors of distress symptoms in
both nonclinical and clinical samples.
Links
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General Hospital - David Dunkley
Selected References
Dunkley, D. M., Ma, D., Lee, I. A., Preacher, K. J., & Zuroff, D. C. (2014). Advancing complex explanatory conceptualizations of daily negative and positive affect: Trigger and maintenance coping action patterns. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 61, 93-109.
Dunkley, D. M., Berg, J., & Zuroff, D. C. (2012). The role of self-critical perfectionism in daily self-esteem, attachment, and affect. Journal of Personality, 80, 633-663.
Dunkley, D. M., Blankstein, K. R., & Berg, J. (2012). Perfectionism dimensions and the five-factor model of personality. European Journal of Personality, 26, 233-244.
Dunkley, D. M., Schwartzman, D. E., Looper, K. J., Pierre, A., Sigal, J. J. & Kotowycz, M. A. (2012). Perfectionism dimensions and dependency in relation to personality vulnerability and psychosocial adjustment in patients with coronary artery disease. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 19, 211-223.
Dunkley, D. M., Masheb, R. M., & Grilo, C. M. (2010). Childhood maltreatment, depressive symptoms, and body dissatisfaction in patients with binge eating disorder: The mediating role of self-criticism. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 43, 274-281.
Dunkley, D. M., Sanislow, C. A., Grilo, C. M., & McGlashan, T. H. (2009). Self-criticism versus neuroticism in predicting depression and psychosocial impairment over four years in a clinical sample. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 50, 335-346.
Dunkley, D. M., & Grilo, C. M. (2007). Self-criticism, low self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and over-evaluation of shape and weight in binge eating disorder patients. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 139-149.
Dunkley, D. M., Blankstein, K. R., Masheb, R. M., & Grilo, C. M. (2006). Personal standards and evaluative concerns dimensions of “clinical” perfectionism: A reply to Shafran et al. (2002, 2003) and Hewitt et al. (2003). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 63-84.
Dunkley, D. M., Zuroff, D. C., & Blankstein, K. R. (2003). Self-critical perfectionism and daily affect: Dispositional and situational influences on stress and coping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 234-252.
Dunkley, D. M., Blankstein, K. R., Halsall, J., Williams, M., & Winkworth, G. (2000). The relation between perfectionism and distress: Hassles, coping, and perceived social support as mediators and moderators. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 47, 437-453.
Updated: January 2014
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