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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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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fernández-García, Olga Gil-Llario, María Dolores Castro-Calvo, Jesús Morell-Mengual, Vicente Ballester-Arnal, Rafael Estruch-García, Verónica Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students |
title | Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students |
title_full | Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students |
title_fullStr | Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students |
title_short | Academic Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Suicidal Ideation in College Students |
title_sort | academic perfectionism, psychological well-being, and suicidal ideation in college students |
topic | Article |
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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