Relationship Between Iranian EFL Learners’ Perfectionism and Extraversion Considering Age, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status

Most studies about perfectionism focused on the relationship between university students’ perfectionism and academic achievement, learner anxiety and procrastination. Considering the limited research available on perfectionism in the context of EFL learners especially within the Iranian context, and the growing emphasis on the importance of perfectionism role in language learning and academic success, there is a need to investigate this issue. Moreover, the roles of demographic factors such as age, gender and socioeconomic factors in perfectionism in Iranian EFL learners’ literature is underexplored and a gap is easily observable. Therefore, employing a quantitative correlational research design, this study attempted to shed light on the relationship between EFL learners’ demographic factors namely age, gender and socioeconomic status and perfectionism as well as perfectionism and extraversion in Kerman, Iran. The results of this investigation show a meaningful association between perfectionism and extraversion values while age, gender and socioeconomic status of EFL learners do not have a significant relationship with perfectionism.  These results obtained from research on the association between perfectionism and language learning might inform language teachers, educators, supervisors and policymakers of this issue.

Relationship Between Iranian EFL Learners’ Perfectionism and Extraversion Considering Age, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status Keywords:

perfectionism , extraversion , English as a foreign language , Socioeconomic