A Study Of The Relationship Among College Student's Perfectionism, Parenting Style And Their Coping Style

In order to make further understanding of college students' perfectionism psychology and explore the relationship among perfectionism, parental rearing and coping styles, Perfectionism Scale for Chinese College Student, Coping Styles Scale and EMBU were conducted to survey 450 college students. The result shows:(1) It is general adaptability that the total level of college students' perfectionism psychology is higher than average level.(2) The college student's perfectionism shows significant difference in gender, professional, grade. The level of male students' perfectionism is higher than that of female students at the dimension of parental demanding; The students who study science is notably higher than the student who study literal arts at the dimension of personal standard; The freshman is higher than the students in Grade Two and Grade Three at the dimension of personal standard; The students in Grade One and Grade Three are higher than the students in Grade Two at the dimension of logic.(3) Parental rearing styles of college students shown more warmth, understanding, Preference, excessive interference, over-protection, and less severe rearing styles, such as refusal, punishment.(4) College students incline to take mature coping styles, including solving problem, seeking help. And it is less likely to take immature coping styles, such as fantasy, withdrawal and feeling guilty, etc..(5) Parental rearing patterns relate mostly to perfectionism at the dimension of parental demanding and worrying about making mistake and they play an important role in predicting these two factors.(6) Parental demanding and worrying about making mistake relate positively to immature coping styles, personal standard and logic relate positively to solving problem; worrying about making mistakes, personal standard and logic can predict coping styles effectively.(7) Bad parental rearing patterns relate positively to immature coping styles, but totally, the predicting function of parenting style to coping style is limited.(8) Parental rearing patterns can influence coping styles indirectly by influencing college students' perfectionism.