David Dunkley
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Canada
Biography
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.
Research Interest
Social & Personality
Publications
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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.
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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.
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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.
