Abstract
The present study aimed at investigating the effect of different perfectionistic latent profiles on university students’ personal goal orientation and coping strategies. Four hundred thirty nine university students (82.5% females) from various departments (38.5% freshmen) participated in the study. Students were asked to complete anonymously three self-report questionnaires in groups in their university classes: (a) the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised was used for measuring perfectionism as a multidimensional construct, (b) the Personal Achievement Goals questionnaire for measuring achievement goal orientation (mastery orientation, performance-approach orientation, and performance-avoidance orientation), and (c) the R-COPE questionnaire for measuring adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies for everyday problems. Latent class analysis was conducted in order to create categorical perfectionistic profiles. The data support the three-group model of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionists and non-perfectionists. The adaptive and maladaptive perfectionistic profiles differ in the level of discrepancy between personal standards and accomplishments and significantly predicted adaptive and maladaptive achievement motivation and coping, respectively.
Highlights
Perfectionism has been studied mostly as a personality disposition to consider every outcome that deviates from perfection as not acceptable
Students were asked to complete anonymously three self-report questionnaires in groups in their university classes: (a) the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised was used for measuring perfectionism as a multidimensional construct, (b) the Personal Achievement Goals questionnaire for measuring achievement goal orientation, and (c) the R-COPE questionnaire for measuring adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies for everyday problems
The present study examined the effects of perfectionistic latent profiles on achievement goal orientations and coping strategies in a sample of university students
Summary
Perfectionism has been studied mostly as a personality disposition to consider every outcome that deviates from perfection as not acceptable Initially it was conceptualized as a unidimensional negative characteristic of the “neurotic” personality, there is consensus among researchers that it is a multidimensional personality construct with positive as well as negative effects on performance and behavior (Stoeber & Otto, 2006). Correlational evidence focuses on the effects of perfectionism dimensions (perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns) on various aspects of academic life (achievement outcomes and motivation) (e.g., Bong, Hwang, Noh, & Kim, 2014; Kljajic, Gaudreau, & Franche, 2017), while in the group-based approach cluster analysis is used to classify students’ into groups of perfectionists and non- perfectionists and to compare these groups as regards their academic adjustment and outcomes (e.g., Rice & Ashby, 2007; Rice & Slaney, 2002; Ståhlberg, Tuominen, Pulkka, & Niemivirta, 2019). The group-based apporach has been adopted in the present jedp.ccsenet.org
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