A Study on the Perfectionist Personality Traits and Empathic Tendencies of Working

begins to be molded, continuing throughout their life by way of punishment, award, and criticism. Within this developmental process, individuals learn to determine standards befitting to the conditions of their environment. Such learning experiences instill in them an understanding that directs them toward certain ways of developing their workplace skills. If the environment in which an individual lives is overly demanding and perfectionist, one effect may be that he may, in turn, develop a perfectionist personality which then may hamper his interpersonal relationships when he expects it from others (Kırdök, 2004). When such an attitude is found becomes instilled in working adolescents, they may overemphasize failure and mistakes as