An Investigation of the Relationship between Perfectionism and Feeling of Loneliness and the Life Quality of Medical Students in Guilan Province
Subject Areas : Journal of Educational PsychologyJavad Khalatbari 1 , Shohreh Ghorbanshiroudi 2 , Iman Hosseini 3
1 - Associate professor. Department of psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran
2 - Assistant professor. Department of psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran
3 - M.A Psychology. Guilan University, Guilan, Iran
Keywords: Quality of Life, Perfectionism, Loneliness,
Abstract :
Life quality has been proposed as one of the signs for measuring health. It has been expressed as a combination of social, mental and physical welfare that can be understood by an individual or groups of people, and is considered one’s thoughts of his or her situation of life based on culture and value regulation he or she lives in as well as the relation among these thoughts with purposes, expectations, criteria in addition to the consideration of priorities of the person. The present study investigated the relationship between life quality and two variables of perfectionism and feeling of loneliness in medical students of Guilan province. This study was accomplished with the purpose of investigating the relationship between perfectionism and feeling of loneliness and the life quality of medical students in Guilan province. The research method was ‘correlation analysis’ and population of this research were all medical students of medical science university of Guilan (612 people) who were selected via cluster sampling in about 300 students, 150 female student and 150 male students. They were the sample groups of the current study. The research materials were Hill Perfectionism Measure, the brief form of Life Quality Questionnaire of World Health Organization as well as the questionnaire measuring social and mental loneliness. The data were analyzed via Multivariable Regression and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that perfectionism and feeling of loneliness were perfect explanations of life quality, thus, a higher life quality could be of more relationship with feeling of loneliness and perfectionism which meant that as life quality increased, the feeling of loneliness decreased. The correlation analysis between perfectionism and feeling of loneliness indicated that a significant correlation was achieved, also, the correlation between perfectionism and life quality was significant. Therefore, a significant correlation was achieved between feeling of loneliness and life quality.
