Perfectionism And Self-Efficacy among Indian Working Professionals

Abstract

Globally, a substantial amount of academic research is conducted on the ideas of perfectionism and self-efficacy. However, not many studies have investigated the same, with a more heterogeneous group of Indian working professionals, to test whether they vary in perfectionism and self-efficacy. To address the gap, the authors prepared a google form containing standardized questionnaires, related to measurement of perfectionism and self-efficacy and sent the same to the social media groups and websites, and professional groups. Based on the 108 responses gathered from the google form and the interviews conducted with the 12 respondents, significant difference was found among the respondents, in terms of the perfectionism, specifically between performance standard set at work vis a vis the standard set by the respondents for themselves. From interviews, it was felt that perfectionism is a relative term, based on the expectation from others about the achievement of goals in respondents’ situation or context. The belief about perfectionism also depended on the self-det goals. In regard to self-efficacy, significant difference was found among the respondents’ belief in their problem-solving ability vis a vis the ability to overcome opposition to get the job done and generating several options to solve the problem. There was no significant difference in the perfectionism of the respondents, based on the demographic factors. However, significant difference was found in the self-efficacy of the respondents, based on their family structure (and no other demographic factors) .