Abstract: This study explored the relationship between depressive mood and both Self-Oriented and Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism. It was hypothesized that both Self-Oriented and Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism would be positively associated with depressive mood, and that the interactions between both types of perfectionism and a difficult task would lead to greater levels of depressive mood. Supplementary hypotheses stated that Self-Oriented Perfectionism would be associated with introjective depression, a self-critical personality style, while Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism would be associated with anaclitic depression, a dependent personality style. Participants were 166 non-clinical male and female community college students who completed a packet of questionnaires during class. The participants were randomly assigned to either a control/easy task condition or an experimental/hard task condition. Correlational and logistic regression analyses supported only some of the hypotheses. Self-Oriented Perfectionism was neither significantly correlated to depressive mood nor did the interaction between Self-Oriented Perfectionism and a difficult task produce an increase in depressive mood. Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism was significantly and positively correlated to depressive mood but was not found to significantly interact with a difficult task to produce an increase in depressive mood. The supplementary analyses demonstrated that both types of perfectionism were positively correlated to both self-critical and dependent personality styles.