Investigate the role of encouragement and perfectionism in students' self-regulation

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of encouragement and perfectionism in students' self-regulation. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all male and female high school students in Mehristan (Sistan and Baluchestan) in the academic year 2019-2020; 303 students were selected by Stratified random sampling according to the table of Krejcie and Morgan (1970). Data were collected using the Amos, Smith & Purkey (2004), 44 points of Evangelistic Motivational Perfectionism Questionnaire (2004), the Evidence-Based Multidimensional Perfectionism Questionnaire (2007), and the Bufard et al. The results showed that all the coefficients of correlation calculated between encouragement training and its components (consideration, commitment, coordination, skill and expectation), perfectionism and its components (self-centered perfectionism, other-oriented perfectionism, and community-oriented perfectionism) and self-regulation. Overall, the results showed that encouragement and perfectionism predicted students' academic self-regulation. In general, the results showed that persuasive and perfectionist education will affect students 'self-discipline and can lead to planning, reliability, focused attention, foresight, self-monitoring, delayed camaraderie and the tendency to succeed by actively solving students' problems.