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Presentation Master's thesis - Armağan Özkan - Work and Organisational Psychology

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Presentation Master's thesis - Armağan Özkan - Work and Organisational Psychology

Last modified on 19-10-2024 16:06
Well-being in Performing Arts: Stress and Perfectionistic Concerns
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07-11-2024 12:00
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07-11-2024 13:00
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Roeterseilandcampus, Building: G, Street: Nieuwe achtergracht 129-B, Room: GS.01

Performers in performing arts (PA) face various stressors on and off the stage. Also perfectionistic concerns (PC) are maladaptive aspect of perfectionism which entails tendency to negatively react to mistakes and appraising them as failures, worry about others’ negative evaluations, feeling discrepancy in one’s standards and performance. Both, the experienced stress and PC in PA weaken the self-regulatory behaviors of the individual as well as they raise great risks on the mental well-being of performing artists. However, self-regulation which is the capacity of planning, guiding and monitoring behaviors when faced by a change, may predict a better well-being in PA. This study investigated impact of stress and PC interaction on mental well-being and the role of self-regulation in this relationship in PA context. Previous research showed the need of using longitudinal measurement since experienced stress and mental well-being measures differ over the academic year. Results show that experienced stress has deleterious effects on mental well-being while PC has a similar effect on self-regulation. However, self-regulation predicts better mental well-being. Interestingly, interaction effect of experienced stress and PC on mental well-being showed that at the high levels of stress, PA students with high PC showed relatively better mental well-being than their peers with low PC. This mental well-being advantage of high PC students increased when self-regulation was controlled. The implications arose from our findings underscore the role of PA institutions in raising mental well-being awareness to protect and promote performers’ mental well-being of the performers.