PERFECTIONIST THINKING AMONG HISTORY DEPARTMENT STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DIYALA

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out whether students in the History Department at the College of Education for the Humanities at the University of Diyala have perfectionist ideas.

 The differences in perfectionist thinking between male and female students in the History Department at the College of Education for the Humanities at the University of Diyala that are statistically significant depending on gender and grade level.

The researchers utilized a descriptive correlational technique, and the study participants were students in the History Department at the College of Education for the Humanities at the University of Diyala for the first morning study of the 2024–2025 school year.   The study population was divided into men and females and by grade level. Because of this, the research sample was selected using a stratified random method, with a proportional distribution based on gender and grade level.   The researchers utilized Burns's (1980) theory to develop a scale for their current study on perfectionistic thinking.   There were 36 items on the scale, which were split into nine groups: goal rigidity, similarity, duality, temporal perception, selective choice, rejection of average or regular performance, obsessive cycle, self-reward for successes, and telescopic vision.   We learned about the scale's psychometric properties..  To go further, the tool was used on a sample of 249 male and female students from the research community, which included 705 male and female students.  Then, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to look at the data.  Here are the results:

• Students at the History Department at the University of Diyala's College of Education for the Humanities have perfectionistic thoughts.
• The gender variable does not show a statistically significant difference in how many students have perfectionistic thinking. When it comes to academic grade, there is a statistically significant difference in how many pupils have perfectionistic thinking.

 The researchers came up with a collection of findings, suggestions, and proposals based on the results.