SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PERFECTIONISM AS A PERSONAL QUALITY

Abstract

Abstract. In the scientific article, the author reveals the socio-psychological features of perfectionism as a personality trait. It states that a perfectionist person believes that he and the environment should be perfect, and all actions should be performed without mistakes. Perfectionism is part of the personality structure and is characterized by the desire for perfection, such individuals without exception strictly adhere to extremely high standards of performance with a tendency to evaluate behavior in a critical manner. The author of the article analyzes the early scientific works, which are known in the world scientific literature, as well as the works of modern scientists, including Ukrainian ones. Reveals the factors that influence the formation of perfectionism in a child. Thus, mothers who use critical remarks more often provoke a high level of self-criticism and dysfunctional perfectionism in their children. The greatest harm to a person who possesses perfectionism is convincing and deep self-deception. That is why the task of psychological assistance to people who are under the influence of this phenomenon should be conversion to their psychological essence. On the basis of the analyzed Ukrainian scientific literature in the direction of finding methods of providing psychological assistance for the correction of dysfunctional perfectionism, the author claims that the development of critical thinking in the assessment of irrational ideas that determine emotional and cognitive disorders helps to minimize and modify personal tendencies of perfectionism. Such trainings, as a rule, have psychodynamic, humanistic and cognitive-behavioral psychocorrective components. However, it should be noted that recently more and more scientific works have appeared that consider perfectionism from a positive side. Thus, the author presents works where perfectionism is a hierarchically structured and multidimensional quality and manifests itself in such forms of behavior as functional and dysfunctional.