Abstract
Instructors who strive to do their job in the best way can experience loneliness due to this perfectionist personality trait. That's why, in this research, it was aimed to reveal the relationship between the instructors' perfectionism and loneliness levels. 123 volunteer instructors who were selected by random sampling method participated in the research, which was designed in relational screening model. Descriptive and provable statistical techniques were used in the research. As a result of the research, it was found that general perfectionism of the instructors was relatively above average. The instructors' self-oriented perfectionism was at the highest level. The instructors' social emotional loneliness levels were relatively below average. The instructors' perfectionism and loneliness levels did not differ according to demographic variables. Positive, medium and high level relationships were found among the instructors' perfectionism. There was a negative, low level relationship between the instructors' perfectionism other than socially prescribed perfectionism and their social emotional loneliness. It was found that the instructors' other-oriented perfectionism levels significantly predicted their loneliness. The studies that can support the findings obtained can be conducted at different universities.
Highlights
Universities are the institutions that are at the top level of educational institutions and they are of great importance as they take the role of shaping the students from the professional aspect
The study group of the research was composed of 121 voluntary instructors who worked in a state university selected by the researchers because of economic constraints and time lag via random sampling method
In order to analyse whether the instructors’ perfectionism and loneliness levels differed according to each demographic variable, MANOVA analysis was performed. It was detected as a result of the analysis performed for gender variable that the findings met the variance-covariance homogeneity necessary for multiple variance analysis (Box’s M=3.30, F=1.08, p>.05) and the error variance equality for the scores of perfectionism (p=.90, p> .05) and loneliness (p=.09 p> .05) in Levene test
Summary
Universities are the institutions that are at the top level of educational institutions and they are of great importance as they take the role of shaping the students from the professional aspect. The academic staff at universities are expected to offer a high level of training on the one hand and to conduct academic studies on the other. This leads to different situations both in the psychological and social sense of the instructors, and they may have to exhibit different personality traits. One of the most important of these problems is probably experiencing social and emotional loneliness by becoming distant from academic and social environment in which the person is. While people's perceptions of perfectionism are considered as good to a certain extent, they can become the obstacles to academic development by causing problems at a certain point and becoming an inextricable situation
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