The relationship between irrational beliefs of basic psychological needs and perfectionism and test anxiety in adolescents

The purpose of this research is to examine whether there is a meaningful relationship between irrational beliefs on autonomy, competence, relatedness needs which are the three basic psychological needs in adolescents and perfectionism and test anxiety. The sample of the research consists of participants aged 13 - 18 living in Istanbul. There were 206 participants and they were chosen by random sampling method. The data related with the test anxieties of the adolescents were gathered by "Westside Test Anxiety Scale", data related with the perfectionism were gathered by "Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale", To evaluate irrational beliefs of basic psychological needs about the the self-identification theory of adolescents "Rational Emotive Self Determination Scale" and lastly the data related with the demographic variables were gathered by "Personal Information Form" designed by the researcher. According to the results of the study, it can be determined that there is a positive correlation between test anxiety and irrational beliefs on autonomy, relevance and competence needs. It can be determined that there is a positive correlation between concernover mistakes, doubt saboutactions, parental critism and irrational beliefs of autonomy needs, irrational beliefs of relatedness needs, irrational beliefs of competence needs. . It can be determined that there is a positive correlation between parental expectations and irrational beliefs of autonomy needs, irrational beliefs of competence needs. According to this, as the parental expectation score increases, the scores of irrational beliefs of competence and autonomy needs also increase. It can be determined that there is a positive correlation between personel standarts and irrational beliefs of competence needs. . It can be determined that there is a negative correlation between organization/order and irrational beliefs of autonomy needs. According to this, as the organization/order score increases, the score of irrational beliefs of autonomy needs decreases. Considering the effect of irrational beliefs of basic psychological needs about perfectionism, it is obtained irrational beliefs of competence needs affect the five factors of perfectionism except from the organization/order subfactor. Keywords: Perfectionism, test anxiety, irrational beliefs of autonomy needs, irrational beliefs of relatedness needs, irrational beliefs of competence needs