BACKGROUND The study was aimed at verifying the predictive power of perfectionism for professional burnout among nurses exposed to distress resulting from work in an operating suite and testing whether this effect exists after controlling for selected demographic and job characteristics. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group consisted of 100 nurses (93 women; mean age: 38.67 years). The majori...

BACKGROUND Sick leave from work due to psychiatric disorders is a major public health problem, not only in Japan but also worldwide. As males and females in Japan tend to differ in their approach to work, a gender difference in perfectionism might be expected. We investigated the background factors leading to long-term absence from work due to sickness among psychiatric outpatients in Japan. ...

perfectionism is a personality characteristic that is defined in various forms but in most of these definitions, willingness to complete and superiority are common. segmentation of perfectionism to two kinds: positive or negative, adaptive or maladaptive and healthy or unhealthy and or to various kinds, began by hamachek (1978) and so far, several theorists have attempted to verification, compl...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the existence and the importance of the distinction between self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism in the Eating Disorder Inventory Perfectionism subscale (EDI-P). METHOD Trait perfectionism, measured by the EDI-P, and eating disorder symptoms, measured by the 26-item Eating Attitudes Test, were examined in 220 university stu...

BACKGROUND The incidence of non-specific work-related upper limb disorders (WRULD) is rising throughout western society. Literature and our own WRULD file (>1200 patients) revealed that both physical and psychosocial work-related factors are major causes of non-specific WRULD. It also appeared that non-specific WRULD was more likely to develop in patients with neurotic-perfectionist personaliti...

Psychological conditions were studied in 20 musicians with focal dystonia and compared with 20 musicians with chronic pain and 30 healthy musicians using the Freiburg Personality Inventory and the Questionnaire for Competence and Control Orientations. Additional questionnaires focused on perfectionism and anxiety particularly with regard to the dynamics of these psychological features. Musician...

Background: Suicidal ideation, as a risk factor for psychopathology, has diverse psychological and social impairments. ideation perfectionism are closely related to self-criticism. Objectives: In the present study, we investigated how self-criticism mediated relationship between suicidal perfectionism. Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 300 students selected from University of Sci...