LONELINESS IN MANAGERS SHOWING PERFECTIONIST BEHAVIOR

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 16, 63 - 75, 16.01.2019

Olgun İrmak Çetin

Abstract

Object: This study aims to empirically test whether there is a relationship between perfectionism and

loneliness in the sense that managers, known as perfectionists in businesses, feel loneliness.

Findings: Factor analysis and reliability tests were applied to the data set. Loneliness variable is collected

in 1 sub-dimension; Perfectionism variable is collected in 3 sub-dimensions. The effect of the independent

variables Self-Oriented Perfectionism (SOP), Other-Oriented Perfectionism (OOP) and Socially-Prescribed

Perfectionism (SPP) on loneliness perception was tested. For the test of research hypotheses, regression analysis

was performed with SPSS package program.

Result: No relationship was found between the Self-Oriented Perfectionism sub-dimension of

Perfectionism variable and Loneliness, but there were positive and significant relationships between Other-

Oriented Perfectionism and Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism and Loneliness.

Keywords

Self-Oriented Perfectionism, Other-Oriented Perfectionism, Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism, Emotional Loneliness, Social Loneliness

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