The Role of Perfectionism Dimensions to Psychological Well-Being in First Year Students with Stress as a Mediator

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200515.102How to use a DOI?

Keywords

psychological well-being, dimension of perfectionisms, stress, first-year students

Abstract

Mental health problems in Indonesia are expected to increase in the next 20 years. Individual mental health needs more attention, including psychological well-being. One aspect that affects psychological well-being is excessive self-expectations or perfectionism. Perfectionism consists of three main dimensions that related to stress. This study aims to determine the role of perfectionism dimensions to psychological well-being in first- year students with stress as a mediator. The participants in this study were 389 first-year students studying in Jakarta. This research design is a correlational quantitative study. The process of retrieving data uses questionnaires consisting of measuring instrument of psychological well-being, perfectionism, and stress. Statistical analysis of data using Structural Equation Modeling testing. The results of data analysis can be obtained three conclusions. The first conclusion is that self- oriented perfectionism has a negative but not significant effect on psychological wellbeing with stress as a mediator. The second conclusion is that other- oriented perfectionism has a negative but not significant role on psychological well-being with stress as a mediator. The third conclusion is that socially prescribed perfectionism has a negative and significant role on psychological well-being with stress as a mediator. Thus, stress functions as a perfect mediation between the roles of the socially prescribed perfectionism to the psychological well-being of first- year students.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fransiska Xaveria Aryani
AU  - Rismiyati E. Koesma
AU  - Zamralita
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/20
TI  - The Role of Perfectionism Dimensions to Psychological Well-Being in First Year Students with Stress as a Mediator
BT  - Proceedings of the Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 612
EP  - 621
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200515.102
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200515.102
ID  - Aryani2020
ER  -