مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Relationship Between Perfectionism and Forgiveness of University Students: The Mediator Role of Emotional Intelligence

Abstract :

This article primarily aims to examine the mediator role of emotional intelligence on the relationship between the perfectionism and forgiveness levels of university students. Relational screening method and descriptive are employed in this research. The participants of the study consisted of 622 sophomore and senior students (304 females and 318 males) in Faculty of Literature, Faculty of Theology, Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education, Faculty of Dentisry and Faculty of Economic and Administrative sciences in Atatürk University in 2015-2016 academic year. In this thesis, he following research instruments were used: Demographic from, Heatrland Forgiveness Scale, Frost Multi-dimensional Perfecionism Scale and Emotional Intelligence Traits Scale-Short Form. The results indicated that there was a negative correlation between forgivenesss and perfectionism. A similar negative relationship was also observed for Perfectionism and Emotional Intelligence. On the other hand, a positive correlation was obtained between forgiveness and emotional intelligence. According o the results, no significant difference was obsered for forgiveness and emotional intelligence levels regarding gender and the grade year groups. On the contrary, a significant difference was obtained for forgiveness and emotional intelligence levels in terms of pre-experience of psychological problems and faculty groups. Finally, it was concluded that there was a partial mediator role of emotional intelligence on the relationship between forgiveness and perfectionism.