A Study on the Relationship between Perfectionist Personality Traits and Psychological Resilience Levels of Managers

In working life, managers play an active role in the process from planning and organizing the work to controlling and reporting it. Managers can be expected to perform all these tasks without errors and according to the planned time. While managers strive to be error-free to meet this expectation, they also need high psychological resilience to manage the process easily. In this case, the personality structures of managers come into play. If managers carry out the task of managing and directing the process in the most ideal way due to their jobs with the rigid characteristics of perfectionist personality, psychological difficulties may begin for both the person himself/herself and those close to him/her. This situation raises the questions "are perfectionist personality traits and the concept of psychological resilience related to each other?" and "if there is a relationship between them, what is the direction of this relationship?". Based on the questions mentioned above, the main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between perfectionist personality traits and psychological resilience levels of managers. The sample of the study consists of managers working in the private sector in Istanbul. For this reason, the study was conducted on a total of 144 people. According to the factor analysis performed with SPSS 20.0 program, the factor loads of the model consisting of 60 items and 7 dimensions (KMO=0,489; X2= 831,192; p=0,000.) are between 51,92 and 14,08. The scale explains 66.09% of the variance. Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was 0.804. As a result of the analysis, a negative relationship was found between perfectionist personality type and psychological resilience.