Perfectionism differences depending on the level of school refusal for escaping the social aversion or evaluation situations: analysis in Ecuador youth population

• Main Authors: Mª Pilar Aparicio Flores, Virginia Narcisa Ortega Sandoval, Aitana Fernández Sogorb, José Manuel García Fernández
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y Discapacidad 2019-12-01
• Series: INFAD
• Subjects: perfeccionismo auto orientado esfuerzos; perfeccionismo auto orientado crítica; rechazo escolar; aversión social; adolescencia
• Online Access: http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1713

One of the characteristics of human beings is to develop to achieve personal goals and objectives. However, the achievements made in many cases are evaluated and associated as personal triumphs, but there is a group of individuals whose self-assessments are too rigid, and think they did not do well enough, causing them personal dissatisfaction. They are those that are called perfectionists. In turn, there is a group of children and young people who refuse to go to school due to these difficulties in situations of evaluation and public presentation. That is, by escape from aversive social and/or evaluative situations. Therefore, the present work aimed to study the statistically significant differences of perfectionism in Ecuadorian students based on high and low scores in the escape from aversive social and/or evaluative situations, whose factor corresponds to the II dimension of the Refusal School Assessment Scale-Revised for Children (SRAS-RC). The total sample reached a total of 1920 students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Baccalaureate enrolled in public institutes of Ecuador. The observed findings show statistically significant differences in both groups for variables such as Self-Oriented Perfectionism- Strivings (SOP-S) and Self-Oriented Perfectionism-Critical (SOP-C), with adolescents with high school rejection those who obtained higher scores in SOP-C (d = .18) and SOP-S (d = .27). In conclusion, the findings found represent a scientific advance in the educational field, taking into account the importance of not abandoning academic life for the labor, economic and social future of the country of Ecuador.