Anxiety And Perfectionism

I chose this topic because I personally struggle with anxiety and am a perfectionist, so I wanted to see if there was a correlation between the two variables. One study done on these two particular variables by Onwuegbuzie and Daley (1999), investigated the correlation between statistics anxiety and perfectionism with graduate students in research methodology courses. The instrument they used to examine perfectionism was the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS) and the instrument used for anxiety was the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS). Both the MPS and the STARS were administered for the students prior to taking their midterm exam in the research methodology course. The MPS measured three different types of perfectionism: self-oriented, socially prescribed,
The FMPS’s validity is convergent because of its strong correlation with many other scales examining perfection. The FMPS is reliable because of the levels of internal consistency for the total score and subscales. One benefit of using the FMPS is getting to examine different dimensions of perfectionism and seeing how each may individually correlate with anxiety. One drawback of the FMPS is the amount of subscales and how each are separated. Anxiety is… I will measure anxiety with the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) because it focuses on somatic symptoms of anxiety, is valid, and is reliable. The BAI has convergent validity due to the strength of the convergence with other anxiety scales and instruments. The BAI is reliable as well because there is high internal consistency. One benefit of the BAI is that it focuses on somatic symptoms in anxiety and the independence from depression. One drawback is that somatic systems sometimes overlap with medical conditions, which results in having to be extremely cautious with the interpretation of the