Abstract
The aim of this study is to predict the perfectionism level of secondary school students from their parents’ perfectionism. This study was performed with 408 parents and 591 students. FMPS, adapted to Turkish by Özbay and Mısırlı-Taşdemir, was used. According to the analyses; it was seen that there is a meaningful effect while predicting the scores of female students in Organization, Doubts About Actions, Parental Expectations and Parental Criticisms subscales of FMPS; scores of parents and mothers on its own. It was seen that there is a meaningful effect while predicting the male students’ scores only in Parental Expectation subscale; scores of parents and mothers on its own.
1. Introduction
When the studies about perfectionism are taken into account in literature, Hollander (1965), Burns (1980), Patch (1984) and Frost, Marten, Lahart and Rosenblate (1990) explained that perfectionism as setting goals that are out of range and as a structure in which it causes the person to experience negative feelings as a consequence. Likewise, according to the Cognitive Therapy introduced by Beck (1979), it was mentioned that “cognitive distortions” are related with perfectionist mind. Bandura, establisher of Social Learning Theory, argued that learning occurs in a social environment and most important learning experience of children happens by observing others’ behaviors. At this point, reinforcements and praises that the parents give might be effective in the development of perfectionism, together with imitations of parents by children.
5. Conclusion and Recommendation
According to the study; it was seen that there is a meaningful effect while predicting the scores of female students in Organization, Doubts About Actions, Parental Expectations and Parental Criticisms subscales of FMPS; scores of parents and mothers on its own. It was seen that there is a meaningful effect while predicting the male students’ scores only in Parental Expectation subscale; scores of parents and mothers on its own. These results obtained from the study can be shared with families in educational seminars. By this way, it might be provided that parents realize that these characteristics of themselves reflected over their children. At this point, parents can be helped for recognizing themselves better, for being better model and for how to communicate better with their children.
