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Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students

High levels of perfectionism in college students can compromise their academic performance and psychological well-being. This study aims to analyze the implication of perfectionism in psychological well-being and suicidal ideation in the last year. A total of 1.287 students from different degrees re...

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Autores principales: Fernández-García, Olga, Gil-Llario, María Dolores, Castro-Calvo, Jesús, Morell-Mengual, Vicente, Ballester-Arnal, Rafael, Estruch-García, Verónica
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36612403
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010085
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author Fernández-García, Olga
Gil-Llario, María Dolores
Castro-Calvo, Jesús
Morell-Mengual, Vicente
Ballester-Arnal, Rafael
Estruch-García, Verónica
author_facet Fernández-García, Olga
Gil-Llario, María Dolores
Castro-Calvo, Jesús
Morell-Mengual, Vicente
Ballester-Arnal, Rafael
Estruch-García, Verónica
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description High levels of perfectionism in college students can compromise their academic performance and psychological well-being. This study aims to analyze the implication of perfectionism in psychological well-being and suicidal ideation in the last year. A total of 1.287 students from different degrees reported their academic performance in the previous academic year and completed questionnaires on academic perfectionism, psychological well-being, and suicidal thoughts in the last year. In both men and women, academic perfectionism correlates positively with academic performance and negatively with the different dimensions of psychological well-being. Likewise, both the average grade in the previous year (β = 0.364) and the level of demand of the degree (β = −0.461) are mediating variables between perfectionism and psychological well-being. Furthermore, the interaction between perfectionism and academic performance is related positively to psychological well-being, but not to with suicidal ideation. So, the relation between suicidal ideation and perfectionism is positive (OR = 1.075), but this is negative with academic performance (OR = 0.900), although both variables show a mild predictive capacity. These findings suggest that the levels of perfectionism are associated differently with the mental health of students, since if perfectionism is effective (high academic performance), psychological well-being is high, although in our results, this interaction is not as important for suicidal thoughts.
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spelling pubmed-98196912023-01-07 Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students Fernández-García, Olga Gil-Llario, María Dolores Castro-Calvo, Jesús Morell-Mengual, Vicente Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Estruch-García, Verónica Int J Environ Res Public Health Article High levels of perfectionism in college students can compromise their academic performance and psychological well-being. This study aims to analyze the implication of perfectionism in psychological well-being and suicidal ideation in the last year. A total of 1.287 students from different degrees reported their academic performance in the previous academic year and completed questionnaires on academic perfectionism, psychological well-being, and suicidal thoughts in the last year. In both men and women, academic perfectionism correlates positively with academic performance and negatively with the different dimensions of psychological well-being. Likewise, both the average grade in the previous year (β = 0.364) and the level of demand of the degree (β = −0.461) are mediating variables between perfectionism and psychological well-being. Furthermore, the interaction between perfectionism and academic performance is related positively to psychological well-being, but not to with suicidal ideation. So, the relation between suicidal ideation and perfectionism is positive (OR = 1.075), but this is negative with academic performance (OR = 0.900), although both variables show a mild predictive capacity. These findings suggest that the levels of perfectionism are associated differently with the mental health of students, since if perfectionism is effective (high academic performance), psychological well-being is high, although in our results, this interaction is not as important for suicidal thoughts. MDPI 2022-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9819691/ /pubmed/36612403 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010085 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36612403
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010085
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