Which type of perfectionism that yourself?

Perfectionist is an ambiguous term. Whether these properties are advantages or disadvantages?


Confessed perfectionist in a job interview, meant to describe that weakness you can not stop thinking about work or anything that is your responsibility.

Literature about the perfectionist distinguish between the two types of perfectionism, the perfectionist adaptive or maladaptive perfectionists or positive and negative.

Both types of these perfectionists have more similarities than differences. Both have the same high standard and the end result is brilliant.

The difference between them is positive achievement-oriented perfectionists, while negative perfectionism oriented failure.

These differences in orientation affects how they set goals, how they feel about work, and how they respond to failure.

The desire of a perfectionist positive is the growing challenges that give meaning and make them satisfied.

They rarely think of giving up. Therefore, they are always trying to achieve something in life for them. When they have problems, they turn to solving the problem. They respond to failures by reviewing their work, analyze results, and plan what to do next.

Meanwhile, negative perfectionists always do not want to fail in the competition. So, for example, someone who has the negative perfectionist is working hard with the aim that he had not been fired or given a poor assessment.

However, they tend to feel that he was not able to meet the requirements for what he has done, can be said to fear discrepancies in what they want or want.

Research shows that positive perfectionism could protect themselves properly from emotional distress. They tend to be healthier psychologically and emotionally more stable.

Conversely, negative perfeksioni associated with low self-esteem, more anxiety and depression levels were higher.

In fact, want to be perfect is a natural tendency. Humans generally possess positive and negative perfectionism. However, you need to identify whether a perfectionist you have a negative or positive?

You can find out by considering which of these two sentences you most often say to myself, 'That could have been better "or" That's not good enough ".

Source: kompasnews