Advantages and risks of perfectionism of cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Anton Dushkin; Natalia Goncharova

doi:10.35750/2713-0622-2023-4-403-412

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ADVANTAGES AND RISKS OF PERFECTIONISM OF CADETS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA Advantages and risks of perfectionism of cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

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Published in Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior · Volume 3, Issue 4 · Pages 403–412 · Rubric: Psychological research on deviant behavior

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2023-4-403-412

Received: 15.10.2023 Accepted: 27.11.2023 Published: 15.12.2023 Language of publication: RUS

Authors

Anton Dushkin

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Natalia Goncharova

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Anton Dushkin

Academic degree: candidate of pedagogical sciences

Science rang: docent

Saint Petersburg University of the Ministry Internal Affairs of Russian Federation Head of the Department · Pedagogy and Psychology Department at the Research Center for Personnel and Psycho-Moral Support in Law Enforcement · Saint Petersburg

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Natalia Goncharova

Academic degree: candidate of psychological sciences

Science rang: docent

Saint Petersburg University of the MIA of Russia Russian Federation · Saint Petersburg

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. The article deals with the nature of perfectionism, the content of which reflects both its positive and negative consequences. The advantages of perfectionism involve the students' efforts to perfection, self-organisation, and adaptive behaviour. The risks of perfectionism include deep-seated feelings of a person oriented to social approval, conformity to exaggerated standards, avoidance of failures, and overrated level of demands to oneself. This determines negative emotional feelings, anxiety, and stressful states. The aim of the research is to determine the features of perfectionism of cadets with high and low levels of perfectionism and to analyse the risks of its high indicators. The research is based on a sample of 73 people. They were divided into two groups according to the values of perfectionism: with high (n=34) and low (n=39) level. Research methods. The research involved general scientific research methods aimed at data collection, analysis, systematisation and generalisation, as well as empirical methods (testing, interviews). The research was carried out with the help of psychodiagnostic methods: perfectionism questionnaire (N. G. Garanyan, A. B. Kholmogorova), method of diagnosing the level of emotional burnout (V. V. Boyko). Results. The results of the empirical study on the methods used are described and analysed. The results of the study showed reliable differences between the groups with high and low levels of perfectionism, reflecting the presence of significant emotional problems. In the group with a high level of perfectionism the factors of socially oriented type of perfectionist expectations, orientation to exaggerated standards of activity according to the principle "to be the most successful", fixation on failures and mistakes, categorical and polarised thinking were revealed. This type of perfectionism is destructive and its consequences, identified in the research, are reflected in the form of negative emotional experiences, reduction of subjects' professional responsibilities, development of emotional burnout and mental exhaustion.

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perfectionism, constructive perfectionism, destructive perfectionism, emotional burnout, maladaptation, age, mental exhaustion

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Dushkin A. S., Goncharova N. A. Advantages and risks of perfectionism of cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia // Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior. 2023. no. 4. pp. 403-412. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2023-4-403-412. (Date of access 24.10.2026).

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Anton Dushkin, Goncharova N. A.. "Advantages and risks of perfectionism of cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia." Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior 3.4 (2023): 403-412. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2023-4-403-412.

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Dushkin A. S., Goncharova N. A. (2023). Advantages and risks of perfectionism of cadets of higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Russian Journal of Deviant Behavior, 3(4), 403-412. https://doi.org/10.35750/2713-0622-2023-4-403-412

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