Self-Oriented, Other-Oriented, and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism in Employees: Relationships with Burnout and Engagement

By Julian Childs, Joachim Stoeber. 2010

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Burnout and engagement affect employees, organizations, and customers in numerous positive and negative ways. Consequently, it is important to know how individual differences contribute to employees' burnout and engagement. This study examines how individual differences in self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism were associated with burnout and engagement in a sample of 106 employees. Results of correlation and regression analyses showed that perfectionism explained variance in all facets of burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, reduced efficacy) and engagement (vigor, dedication, absorption). Whereas socially prescribed perfectionism was associated with higher levels of burnout and lower levels of engagement, self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism were associated with lower levels of burnout and higher levels of engagement. The findings indicate that individual differences in perfectionism may be a contributing factor to burnout and engagement in the workplace.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Perfectionism in Employees: Work Engagement, Workaholism, and Burnout (2016, background): “Childs and Stoeber (2012) examined two samples of employees—a sample of administrative and managerial staff working for the National Health Service and a sample of school teachers—and found that, across samples, perfectionistic concerns not only showed positive correlations with burnout, but also pr”
How Other-Oriented Perfectionism Differs from Self-Oriented and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism (2013, background): “Another study investigating perfectionism and burnout at the workplace (Childs and Stoeber 2010) computed multiple regressions and found other-oriented perfectionism to show a negative regression weight in the prediction of exhaustion whereas selforiented perfectionism showed a nonsignificant regres”
Do you want me to be perfect? Two longitudinal studies on socially prescribed perfectionism, stress and burnout in the workplace (2012, background): “…longitudinally, the present findings expand on previous evidence from cross-sectional studies that socially prescribed perfectionism is associated with higher levels of stress and burnout in employees (Childs & Stoeber, 2010; Flett et al., 1995; Mitchelson & Burns, 1998; van Yperen et al., 2011).”