Comparison of Early Maladaptive Schemas in Neurotic Perfectionism and Non-Perfectionist Middle School Students

Background: Perfectionist is an important psychological construct and it is highly relevant to education contexts because of the role that standards in general and perfectionism in particular play in the motivation, affect, cognitions, and performance of students. This study aimed at investigating the comparison of early maladaptive schemas in perfectionist and non-perfectionist middle school students of Kangavar city. Materials and Methods This cross sectional study was performed on 500 middle-school girl’s student of Kangavar city, who were selected using multistage randomized cluster sampling, completed the perfectionism questionnaire and schema inventory for children (SIC). The data were analyzed through descriptive (mean, SD, maximum, minimum, person product moment correlation, stepwise regression) and inferential static (t-test). Results: The study demonstrated that perfectionist students gained significantly higher scores in the nine form eleven schemas, and results showed that there was a positive significant relationship among early maladaptive schemas and perfectionist, also unrelenting standards, subjugation, entitlement, enmeshment vulnerability, can predict perfectionist in students. Conclusion: Early maladaptive schema have important role in vulnerable to the perfectionist and they are appropriate components for psychological analysis of perfectionism.