The relationship between anxiety level, perfectionism and anger in a group of working adults

The statement of the problem: In this research, anxiety levels, anger and perfectionism levels were investigated in a sample of healthy adult employees from three factories in the city of Bursa and their relationships were examined under the light of several sociodemographic variables. Method: A total of 426 individuals (115 female and 311 males) were included. A Sociodemographic and Personal Information Questionnaire, Beck Anxiety Scale, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and Anger Expression Inventory were applied to all participants. Results: The data obtained in this research were analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 17.0 program. Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis Tests were used to determine the group differences, and Spearman Correlation Analyses were used to examine the relationships between the study variables. Conclusion: According to our findings, no statistically significant relationships were observed among the workers with different demographic characteristics in terms of anxiety, anger and perfectionism levels. No statistically significant relationships were found between the anxiety and the perfectionism levels or any of the anger dimensions. On the other hand, significant relationships were observed between the sub-dimensions of perfectionism and anger. The research findings were discussed under the light of existing literature and suggestions were made for future studies. Key Words: Anxiety, perfectionism, anger, working adults, factory.