Relationships Between Perfectionism and Self-Esteem in Scientific and Athletic Elites and Non-Elites in Tehran City

Perfectionism and self-esteem are two important components of personality that have received the attention center of the psychologists, and various investigations have attempted to study each of them separately. But a number of studies have sought to investigate simultaneously the two variables. The main objective of the present research is to study of relation between perfectionism and self-esteem in the subjects from the scientific and athletic elites and the non-elite individuals. For this reason, 200 elite subjects (100 scientific elites and 100 athletic elites) and 200 non-elite subjects (100 non-elite subjects in accordance with the scientific elites and 100 non-elite subjects in accordance with the athletic elites) in Tehran city were studied. Measurement of the above-mentioned variables was performed by the positive and negative perfectionism questionnaire of Short et al (1995) and self-esteem questionnaire of Nugent and Thomas (1993). The results showed that there are a positive significant relation in the two study groups between positive perfectionism and self-esteem and a negative significant relation between self-esteem and negative perfectionism. Also, the findings suggested this point that there was a significant difference between the perfectionism and self-esteem of elite and non-elite subjects.