The Perfectionistic Experience of PhD Students from Learned Curriculum in Faculty of Education and Psychology of Shiraz University: A Phenomenological Study

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master of curriculum development,Shiraz University, Shiraz

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The aim of this study was to discover the perfectionism experiences of Ph.D. Students at the faculty of education and psychology of Shiraz University from the learned curriculum at this faculty.The research project was qualitative type and method used was phenomenological. The potential participants of the study were Ph.D. students of the faculty of education and psychology of Shiraz University which 36 person were selected by meaningful sampling method with standard technique.The method of data collection in this study was a semi-structured interview with re-contextualization method.After the division the data coding was done and then using the theme analysis method. The findings indicated that the consequences of the perfectionism experiences of students in four themes of first level organizer divided into self-oriented goals, other oriented goals, socially-prescribed goals and negative perfectionism. Self-oriented,Other–oriented and Socially –prescribed goals each has four second level organizing themes: scientific goals.personality and morally goals. academic goals professional goals.Negative perfectionism also has two levels of organization of the second level: personal barriers fail to fulfill perfection,educational barriers fail to fulfill perfection. The results showed that the outcomes of the students perfectionist experience were divided into five outcomes: scientific, academic, professional, personality/ moral outcomes and negative outcomes.

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