THE ROLE PERFECTIONISM AND IDENTITY STYLES IN THE IRANIAN STUDENTS DECISION MAKING TO EMIGRATE ABROAD

Abstract

The aim of this study was to predict student’s decision for emigration to abroad based on
perfectionism and identity styles of students with and without emigration decision .So 282
Psychology students (BA,MA,PHD) of a Azad Islamic University were selected randomly and
answered these questioners :positive and negative perfectionism , Brozoneski then the data were
analyzed through Logistic Regression results showed that negative perfectionism (P ≤ 0.01 ) ,
were related positively with student’s emigration , But there was no significant relationship
between positive perfectionism and decision to emigrate students . Among identity styles and
styles (P ≤ 0.01) , were related positively with student’s emigration ,But there was no significant
relationship between the avoidance identity styles and decision to emigrate students .Also negative
perfectionism , and demonstrative were able to predict emigration decision (0.3) . Furthe rmore
the result demonstrated that identification styles could not predict student’s decision for
emigration.