06/09
CURRENT
Perfectionism Is Fueling a Millennial Mental Health Crisis Attempting to live the “perfect” life and land the “perfect” job is taking its toll.
A
NEW STUDY from York
from 1989, millennials are now
St. John University
33 percent more likely to believe
and University
their environment demands
of Bath indicates
perfection (“socially prescribed”
that millennials are striving for
perfectionism), 16 percent
perfectionism more than past
more likely to expect perfection
generations of young people. The
from others (“other-oriented”
study, published in Psychological
perfectionism) and 10 percent more
Bulletin, defined perfectionism as
likely to harbor an irrational desire
the best and, as a result, move up the
“an irrational desire to achieve
to be perfect themselves.
cultural ladder.
along with being overly critical of oneself and others.” Compared with young people
The blame has to lie with cell
“Meritocracy places a strong need
phones and social media, right?
for young people to strive, perform
Not exactly, according to the
and achieve in modern life,” lead
THEY REPORT INCREASINGLY UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR THEIR LIVES.
researchers. The study
author, Thomas Curran, told Science
concedes that increased
Daily. “Young people are responding
use of social media does
by reporting increasingly unrealistic
mean young people
educational and professional
compare themselves
expectations for themselves. ”
more often to others, but
Curran warns that this heightened
it pays more attention to
competitiveness and perfectionism
what it calls a growing
could be having a negative effect on the
culture of “meritocracy,”
overall mental health of millennials,
where academic systems
especially considering that their
encourage competition
expectations for themselves grow
among students to be
more challenging to meet over time.
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