Perfectionism Classes and Aggression in Adolescents

Esteban, Cecilia Ruíz; Méndez, Inmaculada; Fernández-Sogorb, Aitana; Álvarez-Teruel, José Daniel

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686380

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“…On the other hand, Hewitt et al (2006; address a positive association between perfectionism and interpersonal hostility and social disconnection; although this was critiqued by Stoeber et al (2017), when found that only other-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism showed associations with signs of hostility and social disconnection, and that self-oriented perfectionism contrastingly showed associations with signs of social connection and low hostility (particularly regarding physical aggression and spitefulness). Moreover, higher levels of aggression behavior (i.e., "anger, hostility, physical aggression, and verbal aggression") were found reported by adolescent maladaptive perfectionists, compared to non-perfectionists and adaptive perfectionists, respectively (Ruiz-Esteban et al 2021).…”

Section: Perfectionism's Influence In the Academic Professional And S...mentioning

confidence: 87%

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good: how perfectionism influences human-centred designing engagement and communal design production in civil engineering

Al Kakoun,

Boy,

Xavier

2023

Res Eng Design

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Perfectionism is a personality trait associated with a desire for flawlessness, high-standard expectations and criticism of the self and others. As engineering design seeks to address more wicked problems that move beyond technical considerations, it is possible that engineers with perfectionism may struggle to engage flexibly with complexity and more creativity-focused solutions. The present study seeks to understand perfectionism prevalence in an undergraduate cohort of civil engineers and the impact of this trait on complex design decisions and engagements that include social as well as technical considerations. 184 civil engineering students were involved in this study. We found that 74.5% of the engineers classify as perfectionists, with 68.5% of these perfectionists being maladaptive. Further, we examined how perfectionism associated with Communal Designs, a design approach that aims to meet physical community needs as well as more metaphysical, empathy-informed criteria. We found that although perfectionists were more likely to have higher scores of prosocialness and empathy, non-perfectionists were more likely to produce Communal Designs. This suggested an apparent intention-behaviour mismatch. Engineering students may have intended to but then failed to produce Communal Designs; this could also be explained via our finding that perfectionists tend to have higher social desirability scores. The results indicate that complex decision-making in engineering design cannot be separated from the mindsets and personalities of engineers. Strategies to mitigate the negative impact of perfectionism are discussed, including both supported exposure to open-ended, contextualised design, and the use of critical reflection. A regression model predictive of Communal Design production was also developed and discussed using engineering undergraduates’ personality characteristics’ scores as predictors.

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Section: Perfectionism's Influence In the Academic Professional And S...mentioning

confidence: 87%

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good: how perfectionism influences human-centred designing engagement and communal design production in civil engineering

Al Kakoun,

Boy,

Xavier

2023

Res Eng Design

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“…(2017), when found that only other-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism showed associations with signs of hostility and social disconnection, and that self-oriented perfectionism contrastingly showed associations with signs of social connection and low hostility (particularly regarding physical aggression and spitefulness). Moreover, higher levels of aggression behavior (i.e., "anger, hostility, physical aggression, and verbal aggression") were found reported by adolescent maladaptive perfectionists, compared to non-perfectionists and adaptive perfectionists, respectively (Ruiz-Esteban, Méndez, Fernández-Sogorb, & Álvarez Teruel, 2021). Hostile and non-hostile behaviour here is referred to, to understand reflections of the social connection (i.e., by extension in concept, the demonstration of social consciousness, empathy and prosocial behaviour) in perfectionists as opposed to non-perfectionists.…”

Section: Linking Perfectionism To Empathy Creativity and Human-centre...mentioning

confidence: 89%

Priming and Mining the Civil Engineering Mindset: How Personal Values and Perfectionism Shape Societal Engagement and Consideration in Design

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There are many ongoing calls for the integration of public welfare needs and concerns into engineering curricula and practice; for example, promoting social consciousness, human-centred design, and other socially-related frameworks. However, some engineering students still seem to devalue or resist these initiatives. This project attempts to overcome this problem by exploring a new methodology to facilitate such integrations, whilst bypassing the possible resistance. In the first intervention, this project explores to facilitate such notions via exploiting the psychology-informed approach of priming. Results of the first intervention showed that the priming initially intended to raise empathy (and by extension, social consciousness) scores unexpectedly resulted in significantly decreasing them. This initiated the second and third interventions, which explored how different key facets of the mindset (i.e., personal values and perfectionism, respectively) contribute to decisionmaking, particularly in contexts of human-centred designing and socially relevant initiatives, in civil engineering design. Such research on exploring the engineering mindset was to also inform the underexplored research literature on the subjective nature of sustainable decision-making in engineering. .. The second and third interventions therefore serve to fill the gap on addressing the subjective nature of sustainable decision-making in engineering, by researching to understand how the different facets of the mindset (i.e., personal values and perfectionism, respectively) dictate decision-making and facilitate (or hinder) social engagement and consideration in human-centric designing and socially considerate contexts. The influence of priming on such decision-making processes and social considerations were also observed in light of the different facets of the mindset. Results show that the majority of civil engineering undergraduates hold dominant Higher Order Values rooted in Self Transcendence (60.87%), and were categorised as perfectionists (74.48%). Findings indicate that those with Higher Order Value rooted in Self Transcendence were significantly less likely to produce what I term Communal Designs (i.e., designs that inform the metaphysical as well as the physical needs of the end-user), compared to those with dominant values rooted in the Higher Order Value of Openness to Change. Students were also found to transition in value towards the Higher Order Value of Conservation with time (i.e., with transition from year 1 to year 3 in a civil engineering programme), and thus transition away from their likelihood of producing Communal Designs by extension. Similarly, those categorised as perfectionists were significantly less likely to produce Communal Designs compared to those categorised as non-perfectionists. Perfectionists were later found to be associated with the Higher Order Value of Conservation when resumed back to the literature for sense-making of the present findings. Underlying common motives of Self-Protection and Anxiety-Av...

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