The Sequential Mediating Effects of Perfectionism and the Lack of Tolerance for Creating Uncertainty in the Relationship between Parental Achievement Pressure and College Students' Career Preparation Behavior

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to confirm the structure and effect of parental achievement pressure on college students' career preparation behavior through personal perfectionism and the lack of tolerance for uncertainty. In particular, we sought to determine what factors influence college students' career preparation behavior by identifying the functions of parental achievement pressure, perfectionism, and lack of patience for uncertainty. Based on previous research, a tendency towards perfectionism, coupled with a lack of tolerance for uncertainty, were selected as factors that influence the relationship between parents' achievement pressure and college students' career preparation behavior. Also, perfectionism was selected in the relationship between parents' achievement pressure and college students' career preparation behavior. In order to verify the sequential mediating path between the perfectionism and the lack of tolerance for uncertainty, a research model was set up to verify the research problem. The subjects of the study were 345 college students, and data were collected through an online survey. Basic analysis was performed using SPSS to confirm the relationship between variables, and sequential mediation effects were confirmed using Amos' structural equation model.According to the analysis results, first, the higher the parental achievement pressure, the higher the perfectionism tendency, decreasing the perfectionism tendency, and the higher the lack of tolerance for uncertainty. Consequently, the higher the lack of tolerance for uncertainty, the higher the career preparation behavior of college students. Through the analysis, we confirmed that the path from parents' achievement pressure to college students' career preparation behavior through the sequential mediation of perfectionism and a lack of tolerance for uncertainty was statistically significant. Second, looking at the results pertaining to the direct and indirect effects of the research model, parents' achievement pressure plays a role in directly reducing the lack of patience for uncertainty, but indirectly reduces the lack of patience for uncertainty through the tendency for perfectionism. We can see that height plays a role. In addition, perfectionism tends to play a role in directly increasing college students' career preparation behavior, but we can also see that it indirectly lowers college students' career preparation behavior through a lack of tolerance for uncertainty. On the other hand, we saw that that parents' achievement pressure did not have a significant direct or indirect effect on college students' career preparation behavior, and that there was a sequential relationship between a tendency for perfectionism and a lack of tolerance for uncertainty between parents' achievement pressure and college students' career preparation behavior. We confirmed that there was a full mediation effect. Based on the results derived from this study, the significance of the study and implications in actual educational settings were discussed.