Why should they be significant? You write like this: Previously researcher X found a negative relationship between adaptive perfectionism and psychological distress. In the present study, this was not the case, which according to our opinion is a noteworthy finding, Psychological distress does not necessary have anything to do with degrees or types of perfectionism in an individual's personality. In contrast, different forms of coping are needed for handling psychological distress. I give you some examples from our studies:

Thank you once again for your help and guidance. I appreciate you sharing your work, it is helpful to see how you've discussed results that are not significant. For the most part, the studies I read all had results that supported their initial hypotheses so there was no discussion about non-significant findings. I think I am too focused on the fact that my results are different and I need to realize that this is not a bad thing because it opens the doors for future research to investigate things further. Coping was related to psychological distress in my study so thank you for putting the discussion in context - this really helps.

Dear Rachel,

The researchers probably formulated their hypotheses after they got their results. In case we would know how our results would turn out to be, we would not have to do any research at all.

Good luck!

Béatrice

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