the relationship between perfectionism and resilience by the mediation of students’ academic adjustment

Introduction: the effectiveness of perfectionism and resilience on the students’ academic adjustment have been paid into attention by lots of researchers. objectives: the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and resilience by the mediating role of students' academic adjustment. materials and methods: the statistical population consisted of all male high-school students in bandar-e langeh city, iran, in the 2017-2018 academic year (n= about 1300). using a multistage cluster sampling method, and morgan and krejcie’s table, 400 individuals were selected. the data-gathering instruments were ahvaz perfectionism scale, resilience scale, and academic adjustment inventory for high school students. a path analysis was used to analyze the obtained data by spss and lisrel. results: the present study findings suggested that perfectionism decreased the investigated students’ resilience (b=-0.21, p<0.0001). moreover, an educational adjustment had a mediating role between perfectionism and resilience (b=-0.24, p<0.0001). besides, changes in the variance of resilience scores with the mediation of academic compatibility could be explained by perfectionism among the studied students (p<0.001). conclusion: the obtained data suggested that planning to improve students’ academic adaptability could play an essential role in increasing resilience by reducing the negative impact of their perfectionism.