A SURVEY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PERFECTIONISM AND LIFE SATISFACTION AND SELF ESTEEM AMONG THE STUDENTS OF SISTAN & BALUCHESTAN,

This paper intends to examine the relationship between "Positive and negative perfectionism" and "life satisfaction and self esteem" among University of Sistan and Baluchestan's students. Cluster sampling method was used whereby 300 individuals of the students studying during 2012-2013 were selected as sampling. The research tools contain three questionnaires of perfectionism, life satisfaction and self esteem, distributed among the sample where the essential data were gathered and analyzed. To measure descriptive findings, mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage were used, and multiple regression analysis, independent t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient have been used to assess the inferential statistics. The results from Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a positive significant relationship between positive perfectionism and "life satisfaction and self esteem", while there is a negative significant relationship between negative perfectionism and “life satisfaction and self esteem ". The result from t-test for independent groups showed no significant difference in positive perfectionism among male and female students, while a significant difference in negative perfectionism among male and female students was reported. The result from Multifactorial regression analysis showed that among the dimensions of perfectionism, both negative and positive perfectionism can predict the life satisfaction, but, only positive perfectionism can predict the self esteem.

KEY WORD: Positive and negative perfectionism; life satisfaction; self esteem; students