Perfectionism

There are many differing views about democracy, but “currently, there are three prominent streams within pragmatic political philosophy: Deweyan democratic perfectionism, Rortyan ironism, and pragmatist epistemic deliberativism” (Talise 2014 123) that provide for the conception of liberal democracy and its implementation. Though each of these philosophical explanations offer their own unique conception of democracy along with how to fulfill democracy’s enactment, pragmatist epistemic…

due to her early burnout she is unable to compete. The themes in this film include coach pressure, unhealthy perfectionism, athletic burnout and eating disorders. The film uses these themes to demonstrate issues that are prevalent…

university dancers, and whether self-esteem will be impacted differently if the dancer already possesses high levels of perfectionism. There is also a lack of research with regard to injured university dancers, hence why this research focused on the self-esteem and perfectionism levels of injured dancers, in order to create a comparison against the self-esteem and perfectionism levels of non-injured dancers. For the purpose of this research, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965) was used to…

between the societal held impressions of perfectionism on adolescents and the irrational beliefs and self-concepts that ensue. For this particular experiment, a total of 142 females and 108 males between the ages of 15 to 18 years participated with the consent of a guardian. Three separate scales were utilized in order to measure trait perfectionism, mental agony and the irrational beliefs about the self of the high school students. Trait perfectionism was measured by utilizing the…

Moderator of Perfectionism, Depression, and Anxiety in College Students.There has been many researchers, according to Zhou, who has tried to find the origin or influence for the correlation such as self-esteem and their coping style (Zhou et co., 2013). The source that Zhou has focused on specifically was the influence of perfectionism. Zhou has mentioned that there are two types of perfectionism, which they have described as a dual-process model of perfectionism. The first type of…

Self-Handicapping in Students In 1978 Berglass and Jones introduced the term self-handicapping to describe a cognitive strategy when people avoid putting effort into a task in hope that failure will not hurt self-esteem. Humans can rationalize failure in the impending task as being due to lack of effort. One way self-handicapping has been studied is in the academic environment. Self-handicapping can be seen in educational settings and is often preceded by procrastination (Urdan & Midgley, 2001).…

due to the ideas of perfectionism, lack of body image, and emotional trauma, but for teens dealing with this there are numerous resources to overcome this obstacle. Many people would believe that having high standards, striving for the best achievements, and having a strong sense of character is a good thing to possess. However, sometimes these standards can become dark and turn on the person who set out those goals. Perfectionism is on the other side of this, perfectionism begins to happen…

In Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tweaker", he discusses the brilliance of Steve Jobs, and how he was a man with more than good taste, who had a sweeping visionary that saw above and beyond. "Jobs sensibility was editorial, not inventive" (3). Even before bringing Apple to its tremendous glory and success, Jobs always had an eye for productivity. As seen with how he questioned the trade-offs with European washing machine and its efficiency. He would later bring…

Released in 2011, the documentary, First Position, directed by Bess Kargman, exposes the hardships and the competitive reality of ballet. The documentary uses of multiple film techniques to present the reality of the art rather than preppy stereotype that surrounds it. My experience as one who sacrifices much, a perfectionist and a fellow dancer who faces body stereotypes, I accept the audiences positioning. My similar experiences as a fellow dancer, incurs an empathic response to Miko and her…

The article is written by teacher who teaches a self contained gifted classrooms and is about her students who exhibited many different forms of unhealthy perfectionism. The teacher describes five different types of unhealthy perfections forms of students: the academic achiever, the risk evader, the aggravated accuracy assessor, the controlling image manager, and the procrastinating perfectionist. A student who…