Perfectionism, anxiety and achievement academic in medical students

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the relationship between perfectionism, anxiety and academic performance in medical students. Methodology: non-experimental research with a quantitative and correlational approach. The sample was non-probabilistic of the intentional type and included 363 medical students from universities in Mexico; 29.2% men and 70.8% women, with an age of 20.87 years. Two instruments were applied: the Multifactorial Perfectionism Scale and the Trait and State Anxiety Inventory. To obtain information on the academic performance of the students, they were asked their cumulative general average up to now. Data collection was carried out using a Google form and the collected data was analyzed in the SPSS version 23.0 program. Contribution: A significant difference was found in general anxiety, women presented higher levels of anxiety. compared to men (2.62 vs 2.37 p=0.00). Likewise, a significant negative relationship was found between state anxiety and trait anxiety and academic performance (-.191 -.199 p˂0.01) and a significant negative relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and academic performance (- .182 p ˂0.01).