Motivation and perfectionism in middle-age patients with essential hypertension.

Introduction: Researchers have traditionally noted the motivational ambivalence of patients with (EH). However, there is a lack of data on correlation of hierarchy of motives with perfectionism in EH patients. Objectives: To conduct a comparative analysis of direction and power of motives and the perfectionism structure in EH patients compared to healthy individuals. Methods: TAT by H. Heckhausen, Multi-Motive Grid (Sokolowski, et al., 2000), Perfectionism Questionnairy (Flett, et al., 1994). The study involved 56 naive middle-age patients with EH, stage 1-2, average age is 51,1±6,6 and 54 normotensive persons, average age is 47,9±6,2. Results: 1. EH patients differ from healthy individuals in total perfectionism (186.76±39.47 vs 170.42±24.74; p=0,05) and other-oriented perfectionism (56.42±13.57 vs 68.14±18.43; p = 0,05). 2. EH patients show prevalence of "fear of failure" over "hope for success" (-3.43±4.82 vs 7.39±5.65; p=0.01), and lower overall level of achievement motivation (16.68±4.16 vs 18,91±4,9; p= 0,05); increased level of "fear of power" (6.90±2.98 vs 5.48±2.67; p= 0,001) and "fear of rejection" (6.90±2.23 vs 4.94±, p= 0,05). 3. In EH patients, several significant correlations (p=0,05) were found: between "fear of power" and such variables as "fear of rejection" (0.629), and "fear of failure" (0.532), "social prescribed perfectionism" (-0.516) and "total perfectionism" (0-.449), as well as "hope for success" (-0.464). 4. For healthy individuals there was only one significant correlation: between "socially prescribed perfectionism" and "fear of failure" (r=0.356, p=0,05). Conclusions: The results helps broaden our vision of the psychological correlations in EH. The research was supported by RFBR; project ? 17-06-00954. Disclosure: The research was supported by RFBR; project ? 17-06-00954. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]