The Effects of Positive and Negative Perfectionism on Work Engagement, Psychological Well-being and Emotional Exhaustion

This study aims to investigate the effects of positive and negative perfectionism on work engagement, psychological well-being and emotional exhaustion. Previous studies indicate that positive and negative perfectionism lead some desirable and undesirable consequences on employees’ work and social life. Accordingly, the study consists of some positive and negative results of the perfectionism. In this context, the data were collected by using a survey method from 146 employees who work as supervisors and managersof hotels. The obtained data were analysed with structural equation modelling technique. The result of the study shows that positive perfectionism affects work engagement and psychological well-being positively, whereas it has no direct effect on emotional exhaustion. In addition to this, negative perfectionism affects psychological well-being negatively but it has no direct effect on work engagement and emotional exhaustion. Therefore, it can be seen that psychological well-being has a fully mediator role in the relationships between negative perfectionism and emotional exhaustion. Moreover, psychological well-being hasa fully mediator role in the relationships between positive perfectionism and emotional exhaustion.