The impact of spiritual/religious perfectionism on psychological health indices and dimensions of nonspiritual/nonreligious perfectionism

Subject Areas : Educational

Mohammad Ali Besharat ¹ , Seyedeh Asma Hosseini ² , Morteza Naghipoor ³

1 - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-07-13 Accepted : 2019-10-07 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: spiritual/religious perfectionism, Health, Religion, spitituality, psychological well-being,

Abstract :

The present study had two purposes: investigating the impact of spiritual/religious perfectionism on psychological health indices and investigathmg the impact of spiritual/religious perfectionism on dimensions of perfectionism. The statistical population of the study consisted of general population living in Tehran. Among the statistical population, 307 individuals (148 men, 159 women) participated in the present study as volunteers. All participants were asked to complete Tehran completed Spiritual/Religious Perfectionism Scale (SRPS; Besharat 2018), Mental Health Inventory (MHI-28; Veit & Ware 1983), Positive and Negative Affects Schedule (PANAS; Watson et al. 1988), and Tehran Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (TMPS; Besharat 2007). The results revealed a significant positive influence of spiritual/religious perfectionism on measures of psychological well-being, positive affects, and self-oriented perfectionism, as well as a significant negative influence of spiritual/religious perfectionism on measures of psychological distress, negative affects, and socially prescribed perfectionism (p <.001). Results of regression analyses revealed that 70% of variance of the research variables explained by spiritual/religious perfectionism with the largest portion for psychological well-being. It can be concluded that spiritual/religious perfectionism is one of the determinants of psychological health. The findings also may support a new dimension of perfectionism, spiritual/religious perfectionism, separate from nonspiritual/nonreligious perfectionism.

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