The role of whether the mother is a teacher on mother perfectionism, child perfectionism and child anxiety level

The purpose of this research is to examine the role of the teaching profession of mothers on the level of perfectionism of the mother and the level of perfectionism/anxiety of their children. With this purpose, ''Personal Information Form'' and ''Frost Multidimentional Perfectionism Scale'' were answered by 300 mothers with the average age of 47,88 from Manisa and '' Frost Multidimentional Perfectionism Scale'' and '' Spielberger State- Trait Anxiety Inventory'' were answered by their 300 children with the average age of 22,19. In addition, mothers' ( age, education, income, marital status, occupation and their number of children) and children' (age, occupation, education, care taker in preschool period) demographic information were analyzed. The relationship between the teaching profession and mothers' perfectionism is investigated. According to the results of the study, only ''Parental Criticism'' scores are differentiated statistically due to the fact that the mother is a teacher or not. For ''Parental Criticism'', the scores of teacher mothers are significantly lower than the scores of mothers who are not teachers. When the relationship between teacher mothers and level of perfectionism of children who are aged between 15-30 are analyzed, children's scores on only ''Personal Standards'' are differentiated statistically due to the fact that their teacher is a teacher or not. For ''Personal Standards'', the score of children with teacher mothers is significantly higher than the children whose mother is not a teacher. When the relationship between teacher mothers and the level of anxiety of children who are aged between 15-30 investigated, children's anxiety scores aren't differentiated statistically due to the fact that their mother is a teacher or not.