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Students Perfectionist Personality And Self-esteem, Worry Psychological Relations,

Posted on:2009-01-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360272472974Subject:Basic Psychology
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The perfectionism is very common in the college students, as one kind of personality characteristic and a thinking mode, it is a stable psychological feature which exists in the different situation; The worry refers to the bad mood condition, most university students feel the varying degree of worry; The self-esteem also namely self-assessment, is that the evaluation of one's own attitude. The perfectionism as one kind of personality characteristic has certain influence to the self-esteem and the worry.To explore the relationship between perfectionism and self-esteem, worry. 800 college students in xi'an were selected to be investigated in this research with the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS), the Worry Domains Questionnaire (WDQ) and the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (SES) as the measuring tools. Uses spssl3.0 and the amos5.0 software carries on the analysis processing for the data. The following is concrete researches.In study 1 and study 2, uses the methods of the exploring factor analysis and the confirmation factor analysis, to construct a Chinese Version of the FMPS and the WDQ, testing its reliability and validity, constructing the Chinese college student local tool. Results: Revised FMPS has 5 dimensions,25items. Revised WDQ has 3 dimensions,15items. And has satisfaction validity and reliability target, meets the requirement of measurement.In study 3, the main aim of this research is compare the perfectionism tendency belonging to students of different background (sex, grade and major in science or literature), using the MANOVA and the Cluster analysis, and further studies its structure and type. The result discovered that: the college student perfectionism's level is slightly higher; there was not obvious difference on sex, major in science or literature and grade of college students, but counts the significance in the partial dimensions to be remarkable; It's structure and type findings are similar with the predecessor.In study 4, the present study examined the relation among the variables of perfectionism, self-esteem and worry, by using Structural Equation Model (SEM) technology. The findings revealed that: perfectionism, self-esteem and worry of college student have remarkable related, the perfectionism have marked direct effect on self-esteem and worry, but maybe also affect the worry indirectly through the self-esteem.According to the above finding, some conclusions were got as below:(1)Revised FMPS and revised WDQ, these two tests could use in the research under Chinese cultural college student's perfectionism behavior and the worry.(2)The perfectionism level of college students whole is slightly higher; the male in the "doubt about actions" is obviously higher than the female, in the "organization" and the sum score of perfectionism, the second-grade is obviously higher than the third-grade.(3)Perfectionism structure can be classified into two: adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism, also could be classified into three: the positive perfectionism, the neutral perfectionism and the negative perfectionism.(4)To investigate the present situation of perfectionism of College students, they could be classified into three kinds in perfectionism. The moderate perfectionism accounts for the proportion to be biggest, the extreme perfectionism is next, the non-perfectionism accounts for the proportion to be smallest; the "organization" cannot take the discrimination perfectionism type.(5)Perfectionism's negative factor was positively related to worry and negatively related to self-esteem; Neutralization factor ("personal standards") was positively related to self-esteem and negatively related to worry; but the positive factor ("organization") was neither related to the worry nor to the self-esteem; Self-esteem and worry existence negative relations.(6)The perfectionism personality has marked direct effect on worry, but may also affect the worry indirectly through the self-esteem. Improving the perfection can increase their self-esteem level and thus decrease their worry.
Keywords/Search Tags:perfectionism, worry, self-esteem
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