Comparison of Perfectionism Consequences among Women and Men with Coronary Heart Disease

This study compares the dimensions of perfectionism among women and men with coronary heart disease undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery. The statistical population in this study included all coronary heart disease patients, in which100 patients (50 women, 50 men) selected as sample using random sampling method. The statistical methods used in this research were descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage frequency, mean, standard deviation and variance), inferential statistics (independent t test to compare two groups) and ANOVA test (SPSS software used to analyze the data). The results show that for comparing the difference between the two groups of women and men in the scores of perfectionism dimensions using independent t-test with 99% confidence and with a p-value of (0.002), the observed difference between the mean scores of egocentricity scale in the two groups of women and men is statistically meaningful. Therefore, it can be concluded that women than men have a higher degree of perfectionism at an egocentric scale or self-oriented. One-way Analysis of variance (ANOVA) test used to compare the mean scores of perfectionism dimensions in three groups with education (diploma, under diploma, academic). As a result, with a freedom degree of 2.97 and 95% confidence there was a significant difference. The average of the three groups according to perfectionism scales shows that the group with the under diploma education as compared with other two groups has more perfectionism.