According to
WHO, now a days many young people are suffering from mental disorders and anxieties.
Certain social groups considered this young people as “snowflake generation”,
the neologistic term that is used to characterize the young ones of the 2010s
who are more prone to taking offence and less resilient than previous
generations.
The increase
in psychological health is due to excessive standards these young people put
them upon and engage themselves in self-punishment. They upholds irritating ideals that manifests unrealistic goals in their academic, personal and
professional life.
The young
people nowadays are preoccupied with this myth of Perfectionism which leads to
ultimate failure and psychological turmoil. Their minds are haunted with someone
else’s success and trying to achieve that they engage in number of flawless
performance.
This idea of
perfectionism and the reason behind increase in mental illness was recently
published in HBR’s recent research paper of “Psychological Bulletin”. Topic of
the research: is perfectionism rising among America, Canadian and British college
Students?
Paul Hewitt
and Gordon Flett, the leading psychologists conducted this research survey on
generational changes on 41,641 American, Canadian and British college students from
1989 to 2016 based on ‘Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale’ which measures ‘self-oriented
perfectionism (high personal expectations), socially prescribes perfectionism
(high social expectations) and other-oriented perfectionism (expectations from
others) Data are collected over different time points using the same instrument
among the college students of the same age changing over time.
Research
statistics reveals significant rise in self-oriented, socially-prescribed and
other-oriented perfectionism. Recent generations are more self-centric than of
previous generations.
The survey
analysis says that socially prescribed perfectionism is the main concern as it
describes the increase twice than self-oriented and other-oriented
perfectionism. This form of perfectionism cites serious mental disorders like
anxiety, depression, social phobia and suicidal thoughts. It is considered one
of the epidemic level of perfectionism.
Perfectionism
is a mythical trait. Although it involves hard work, dedication, motivation and
performance, it also delivers serious mental illness. Perfectionism is
increasing among the young people and it is dangerous for our society.
Source: HBR, Wikipedia
