Perfectionism tendency and its relationship to some personality traits of faculty members

  • Prof. PhD. Ali Shaker Al-Fatlawi University of Al-Qadisiyah
  • Hassan Hamid Al-Obaidi Ministry of Education
Keywords: perfectionism tendency, perfectionism, personality traits, neuroticism

Abstract

The study aims to identify the perfectionism tendency and its relationship to some personality traits of members of the teaching staff in Al-Qadisiyah Education Directorate in Al-Diwaniyah city. The number of individuals in the sample reached (413) teachers and schools, who were chosen by the random class method with proportional distribution. For the purpose of measuring this goal, the measure of perfectionism was built according to the model of Hill & et al. (2004), which is finalized from (45) paragraphs. The scale of personality traits (neuroticism, extroversion, and conscience alertness) was adopted according to the model of the major personality factors of Costa and McCrae (1992), Al-Ansari Arabization 1997, which is in its final form of (31) paragraphs, and extracted for all research tools the characteristics of honesty And persistence. The results of the study found that the teachers are characterized by a high level of perfectionism, and the research community was characterized by a tendency to diastolic and conscientious attributes, and there is a positive correlation statistically significant between perfectionism and the features of extroversion and conscientiousness, and there is no correlation between perfectionism and neuroticism, and that a characteristic ( Extroversion and conscientiousness) contribute to increasing the emergence of perfectionism, while the neurotic feature does not contribute to increasing the emergence of perfectionism among teachers, and the study concluded with a set of important recommendations and proposals.                                                                                        

Author Biography

Prof. PhD. Ali Shaker Al-Fatlawi, University of Al-Qadisiyah

College of Arts /University of Qadisiyah

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Published
2020-10-29
How to Cite
Shaker Al-Fatlawi, P. P. A., & Hamid Al-Obaidi, H. (2020). Perfectionism tendency and its relationship to some personality traits of faculty members. Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Humanities Sciences, 23(3), 149-181. Retrieved from https://journalart.qu.edu.iq/index.php/QJHS/article/view/286
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