DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2019-4-551-560
The correlation between perfectionist self-presentation and communicative activity
Svetlana A. Vasyura
Ph.D. in Psychology, Docent, Associate Professor
of the Department of General Psychology
Udmurt State University,
1, Universitetskaya st., Izhevsk, 426034, Russia;
e-mail: vasyura@inbox.ru
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0439-3353
Mariam S. Begoyan
Postgraduate Student of Institute of Pedagogy,
Psychology and Social Technologies
Udmurt State University,
1, Universitetskaya st., Izhevsk, 426034, Russia;
e-mail: mariam-m17@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4877-7241
The article analyzes the issue of perfectionism and perfectionist self-presentation and its current state in psychological science. It is noted that perfectionism is manifested in many types and forms of human activity, including communicative activity. The paper discusses the results of empirical study of the relationship between perfectionist self-presentation and communicative activity. The research sample consisted of would-be designers (students) and designers. P. Hewitt’s method «The scale of perfectionist self-presentation» (SPS) (adapted by A.A. Zolotareva) and A.I. Krupnov’s «The Judgment Test» were applied in the research. Descriptive statistics, the Mann–Whitney U test, Spearman correlation coefficient were used to process the data. The statistical software package SPSS 17.0 for Windows was also used. The study has identified universal and unique interrelations of perfectionist self-presentation and communicative activity indicators in the samples of students and designers. The general mechanism for demonstrating perfection and behavioral non-manifestation of imperfection is the cognitive component of communicative activity — awareness, while behavioral non-manifestation of imperfection is associated with the productive component of communicative activity — subjectivity, i.e. orientation to your inner world and the world of the partner in communication. Unlike designers, students show emotional and regulative components of communication activity to remain unconnected with perfectionist self-presentation. The results of the study can be used in individual psychological counseling by specialists of psychological services at universities. The data obtained may be of interest to curators of student groups, teachers, and may also be in demand by specialists in the artonomic sphere (a person as an artistic image) in solving problems of optimizing interpersonal interaction.
Keywords: perfectionism, perfectionist self-presentation, communicative activity, communication, personality, student, designer.
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Received 15.08.2019
For citation:
Vasyura S.A., Begoyan M.S. [The correlation between perfectionist self-presentation and communicative activity]. Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Filosofia. Psihologia. Sociologia [Perm University Herald. Series «Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology»], 2019, issue 4, pp. 551–560 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2019-4-551-560