The aim of our study was to show that there a strong link between perfectionism and depression in young adults. Our key findings in our research was that the higher a participant scored on both questionnaire’s the more likely they were to display traits of perfectionism and depression in their day to day lives. Therefore our aim and hypothesis were fulfilled as our results show a strong correlation between perfectionism and depression traits.
We can also support our views with previous literature such as Asseraf and Vaillancourts (2015) longitudinal research on perfectionism and depression in children. Their findings support that depressive symptoms can lead to constantly be dissatisfied with any effort what is given whether it positive or …show more content…
Their research confirmed that maladaptive perfectionism was indeed in association with depression. As maladaptive depression is known to be the most critical out of the two, it leads to more critical thinking especially about oneself which then in time leads to a state of depression. However these findings also reported that adaptive perfectionism was not in any way linked to depression. Similarly the participants used in Rice et als research were also young adults, of both genders and was conducted on a wide sample of the population.
A weakness of our study is that as we used a correlational survey we aren’t able to say that either variable of perfectionism or depression is the cause of the other we can only clarify that they interact with each other. Paradoxically strength of using a correlational survey is that the study can be replicated and not just to a population of young adults. This type of design can reach a geographically dispersed sample which could highly increase the number of participants which will in turn make the research results more …show more content…
This is supported by the evidence that many perfectionist traits such as anxiety and fear of failure (which have been previously stated in the introduction) have been commonly linked to depressive symptoms as both revolve around low mood and feelings of low self-esteem.
In conclusion, our research compares positively with most other pieces of literature as they have both been able identify a positive correlation between the two variables. The method used allowed us to gather quantitive personal data on the participants thoughts and feelings using a reliable scale which allowed us to clearly analyse our results. In this study the hypothesis was to find out whether there was a correlation between perfectionism and depression scores. The results show that we have proved this hypothesis as we were able to prove that these two traits correlate each
We can also support our views with previous literature such as Asseraf and Vaillancourts (2015) longitudinal research on perfectionism and depression in children. Their findings support that depressive symptoms can lead to constantly be dissatisfied with any effort what is given whether it positive or …show more content…
Their research confirmed that maladaptive perfectionism was indeed in association with depression. As maladaptive depression is known to be the most critical out of the two, it leads to more critical thinking especially about oneself which then in time leads to a state of depression. However these findings also reported that adaptive perfectionism was not in any way linked to depression. Similarly the participants used in Rice et als research were also young adults, of both genders and was conducted on a wide sample of the population.
A weakness of our study is that as we used a correlational survey we aren’t able to say that either variable of perfectionism or depression is the cause of the other we can only clarify that they interact with each other. Paradoxically strength of using a correlational survey is that the study can be replicated and not just to a population of young adults. This type of design can reach a geographically dispersed sample which could highly increase the number of participants which will in turn make the research results more …show more content…
This is supported by the evidence that many perfectionist traits such as anxiety and fear of failure (which have been previously stated in the introduction) have been commonly linked to depressive symptoms as both revolve around low mood and feelings of low self-esteem.
In conclusion, our research compares positively with most other pieces of literature as they have both been able identify a positive correlation between the two variables. The method used allowed us to gather quantitive personal data on the participants thoughts and feelings using a reliable scale which allowed us to clearly analyse our results. In this study the hypothesis was to find out whether there was a correlation between perfectionism and depression scores. The results show that we have proved this hypothesis as we were able to prove that these two traits correlate each