الكمالية لدى الطالبات المتفوقات دراسياً في كلية التربية جامعة بيشة وعلاقتها بكل من استراتيجيات تنظيم الانفعالات ومستوى الإفصاح عن الذات

Abstract

The present study aims at identifying the perfectionism of the academically outstanding female students of the Faculty of Education, Bisha University (KSA) and its relationship with both emotion-regulation strategies and self-disclosure level. The study sample consists of 137 top female students of Kindergarten, Psychology, and Early Childhood Departments. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers have used the descriptive approach and relied on tools such as university students’ perfectionism measure prepared by Samira Shand et al (2017), emotion-regulation list of Cross and John et al (2003), and Arabization and codification of Salah Al-Deen Iraqi (2014) which have been adapted to Saudi environment. In addition, the researchers prepared a self-disclosure measure for ‘face-to-face interaction situations and indirect-interaction situations (through social media sites)’.

     The study has found that the sample’s individuals’ perfectionism is at low level in three dimensions; they are: the need for approval, sensitivity to criticism, and obsessional thoughts. At the same time, the study sample (top female students) was shown to have some degree of perfectionism in the dimension of high performance standards. Further, the study has shown that the informants of the sample have used the emotion-regulation strategies objective of cognitive re-evaluation and emotional expression repression. It was also found that the sample’s individuals’ self-disclosure level was low in both situations ‘face-to-face interaction and in their indirect interaction through social media sites’. However, in the dimension of disclosure of their feelings, they were more frank in indirect interacting. Findings also have shown a direct correlation between perfectionism and self-disclosure in terms of both direct and indirect interactions. This means that the higher level of perfectionism, the higher level of self-disclosure and the vice versa, while a significant relationship was not shown between perfectionism and emotion-regulation strategies. Further, while self-disclosure level can predict the level of perfectionism, emotion-regulation strategies could not predict the level of perfectionism of the academically outstanding female students of Bisha University.