Typology of perfectionism

Abstract

The articledeals with the essence of perfectionism of personality. Having analyzed the scientific literature of foreign and Ukrainian scientists, authors give characteristics of main types of perfectionism of personality. Almost all researchers, having concerned with the investigation of the problem of perfectionism, identified two types of this construct, but called them in different ways. A perfectionism with positive orientationis named as a positive, constructive, healthy, adaptive, normal, functional, etc. A perfectionism with negative orientation in the scientific literature is named as as destructive, neurotic, maladaptive, pathological, dysfunctional, etc. Based on scientific references, the authors consider it appropriate to distinguish perfectionism with positive orientation and perfectionism with negative orientation.

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Liudmyla Karamushka, Tamara Grubi

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Liudmyla Karamushka, Tamara Grubi (2016). Typology of perfectionism. Організаційна психологія. Економічна психологія, 1(1), 77-84. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-550809