Perfectionism as Predictor of Psychological Wellbeing among College Students
Keywords:
perfectionism, psychological wellbeing, college student
Abstract
India is a collectivistic society that places considerable amount of importance on its members to strive for the best as every action desire accomplishment and failure has social connotations for family and other close members of society There are social pressures to achieve and to be perfect This has a direct implication on the wellbeing of an individual especially college students since they are in the transition phase wherein they are looking for meaning in life in terms of right career choices and making their parents proud The present study explored perfectionism and psychological wellbeing among college students and their interrelationship A total of 281 college students Males 174 Females 107 in the age range of 18-24 years participated in the study They were administered Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and Ryff s Scale of Psychological Wellbeing Results revealed that all the three dimensions of perfectionism show significant relationship with all the six dimensions of psychological wellbeing Perfectionism both self oriented and socially prescribed accounted for a large variance in many dimensions of psychological wellbeing Others Oriented Perfectionism did not come out to be contributing to psychological wellbeing Perfectionism emerged to be one of the major contributors to psychological health and wellbeing
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2016-03-15
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