Perfectionism And Self-Esteem Level

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction

This chapter includes the studies background, statement of the problem, theoretical framework, conceptual framework, significance of the study and hypotheses.

1.1 Background of Study

Researcher focused much attention in studying relation of perfectionism and self esteem level. This is because these two elements are important determinants of success. Nowadays, many researchers have done their study on perfectionism in two ways either orientation perspective or adaptive perspective. Many people think of perfectionism as something and often visualize a high achiever. This is because they usually think of it as pursuing excellence or having high standards. When people pursue excellence or set high standards,

According to Hewitt and Flett perfectionism can be categorized into three dimensions; self – oriented perfectionism, other – oriented perfectionism and socially prescribed perfectionism. In other perspective, Rice believed that all aspects of perfectionism are not negatives. Therefore, Rice categorized perfectionism into two dimension; adaptive perfectionism and maladaptive perfectionism. Previous studies show us that both perfectionism perspectives have a significant relation with self esteem level. Even though there is a significant relation, there is no research that studies about perfectionism among student that majoring in human development program such as counseling, psychology, early childhood and special education student. Therefore, we do not know either these student have perfectionism or not. It is important to us to know either they have perfectionism or not because by knowing this we can make some improvement in their daily

1.3.5 Does self esteem level can be significantly affected by gender?

1.4 Purpose of Study The main objective of this study is to find out the relationship between perfectionism and self esteem level among student of Faculty of Education and Human Development (FPPM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI). Another purpose of this study is to identify the gender difference of perfectionism among FPPM undergraduate students. Besides, this study also proposed to identify the gender difference of self esteem level among FPPM undergraduate students.

1.5 Significance of Study There are three purpose of this study. Based on this purpose, there are few numbers of significance on this study. The first significance of this study is by understanding the relation between perfectionism and self esteem, we can know why some student have lower self esteem. This is because there have many factors that can influence the level of self esteem. One of the factors is perfectionism. Based on what Suleyman, 2014 reported, perfectionism significantly correlated to self