Health and wellbeing

Perfectionism can be both healthy and unhealthy. Healthy aspects of perfectionism include setting high personal standards, while unhealthy perfectionism include aspects like concerns about mistakes, doubts about own actions, fear of negative evaluation by others, and feelings of discrepancy between expected and actual achievement.1 Unhealthy perfectionism is linked to a wide range of negative outcomes […]

‘Burnout’ is a term which is often thrown around in conversations and personal anecdotes, and that was how the idea originally emerged. In research, it was first conceptualised in the context of health care and human service workers,1 then later adapted to other domains including athletes2 and academic learning.3 In music, burnout has not yet