Positive and Negative Perfectionism and Its Relationship with Stress among Students

Abstract

The paper throws light on the students where in most of the stress is being found. The purpose of the study was to examine relationship between Positive and Negative Perfectionism and Stress among Students. The sample collected consisted of 120 students (N-120) with an age range of 18-25 years. The sample was collected using purposive sampling technique. Two tools were administered on the sample for data collection and these were Positive and Negative Perfectionism (PANPS) and Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ). The statistical analysis of the quantitative data was done using SPSS and/, Descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used, the findings reveal that there is no correlation between Positive Perfectionism and Stress amongst students and hence, hypothesis 1 has been completely rejected. In addition to this, there is no relationship found between Negative Perfectionism and Stress amongst students hence, rejecting hypothesis 2. It has also been found that there is a significant relationship between Positive Perfectionism and Negative Perfectionism but not with Stress amongst students and thus, hypothesis 3 was completely accepted. Lastly, when the two variables were analysed together, similar results were found as mentioned above. Hypothesis 2 can be altered and used for future research.