The Role of Perfectionism on Self Regulation and Defensive Pessimism at Workplace

By : Nilesh Thakre, Sneha Sebastian

Page No: 75-84

Abstract:
This study intends to examine the perfectionism and its effects on self-regulation and defensive pessimism and association between self-regulation and defensive pessimism. The participants of the study consist of 120 men and women employees working in the private organization within the age range of 25 to 45 years, belongs to Mumbai and its suburbs. They were evaluated by using, the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (Slaney et al., 2001), the Self-Regulation Questionnaire (Brown, Miller, & Lawendowski, 1999) and the Defensive Pessimism Questionnaire (Norem, 2001). The data were analysed by independent sample t-test and coefficients of correlation. The result of the study shows that the employees with higher adaptive perfectionism are higher on self-regulation t = 30.84 (P < 0.01) and the employees scoring high on maladaptive perfectionism are higher on defensive pessimism t = 38.41 (P < 0.01). The correlation analysis shows the significant positive correlation between selfregulation and defensive pessimism, r = .17, p < .05. The results revealed that adaptive perfectionists employees are able to develop, implement, and flexibly maintain planned behaviour for goal achievement.

Authors :
Dr. Nilesh Thakre
Associate Professor – University Department of Psychology, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai

Ms. Sneha Sebastian 
Employee Psychologist – Silver Oak Health, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2021.16.01.8