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Young adults are more perfectionistic than ever before, study finds

College students feel more pressure to be perfect than they did a generation ago, finds research published in Psychological Bulletin.

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College students feel more pressure to be perfect than they did a generation ago, finds research published in Psychological Bulletin. That increase in perfectionism may be tied to social and economic factors such as rising inequality and slowing economic growth, the researchers found.

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