Relationship Between Self - Discrepancy, Perfectionism, Procrastination And Emotion

Self-discrepancy refers to the distance between ideal or ought self and actual self. Self-discrepancy theory insist that the higher self-discrepancy will generate strong negative emotions and has an effect on people’s mental health and life happiness. Early adulthoods are in the special period to get alone with contradictions from various aspects like academic, economic, business, personal feelings and so on, which is centralized and prominent. The situation of Self differences and the related psychological status are alarming. Researches on each two of self-discrepancy, perfectionism, procrastination, and emotion’s relationships show that they have the logic relation, but previous researchers has not yet been conducted a comprehensive analysis and empirical research on the logical relationship as a whole. Through the self-made self-discrepancy questionnaire of early adulthood, Zi’s Positive Perfectionism Questionnaire (ZPPQ) and Zi’s Negative Perfectionism Questionnaire (ZNPQ), Lay’s General Procrastination Behavior Scale, Anxiety Self-evaluation Scale, and Self-Rating Depression Scale. Using statistical analysis software of SPSS, AMOS and so on. and analyzing a large amount of early adulthood individual measurement, this paper studied the relationship among self-discrepancy, perfectionism, the general procrastination, and the emotional, to reveal the status quo of self-discrepancy in early adulthood and the relationship among self-discrepancy, perfectionism, the general procrastination, and emotional, expecting to provide related theoretical support and practical basis for self-concept analysis, self-discrepancy measurements, the general procrastination analysis and psychological problems adjustment. The main results achieved were as follows:1. Contemporary early adulthoods’ self-concept structure is based on the will of the self-quality, personality self, interpersonal self, mood and emotional self, physical self and academic as the main composition and characteristics in China.2. Self-discrepancy in early adulthoods is ubiquitous. Ideal self and ought self are significantly higher than actual self. In addition, early adulthoods’ perfectionism, the general procrastination and emotion are also exist significant differences.3. The study of the relationship between emotion and self-discrepancy, or perfectionism, or the general procrastination shows:(1) Positive perfectionism is negatively related to the ideal self. In the three dimensions of positive perfectionism, Positive self-expectation dimension has a significantly positive relationship with two types of self-discrepancy, while active organization and positive self-evaluation dimensions have a significantly negative relationship with it. Negative perfectionism has nothing to do with ideal-actual self-discrepancy. In each dimension of negative perfectionism, hesitation, excessive planning-and-control are positively related to the two types of self-discrepancy.(2) The two types of self-discrepancy are both positively related to the general procrastination, but the related degree is not high.(3) Positive perfectionism is positively related to the general procrastination. In each dimension of negative perfectionism, excessive caution-and-carefully is negatively related to the general procrastination, while hesitation and fear of failure are positively related to it. Group study of perfectionism shows that high-positive-low-negative perfectionist has the least general procrastination, high-positive-high-negative perfectionist takes the second place, low-positive-low-negative perfectionist has the most general procrastination.(4) Self-discrepancy and positive perfectionism are negatively related to emotions. In each dimension of negative perfectionism, hesitation and fear of failure are positively related to anxiety and depression, while excessive planning-and-control is negatively related to them. Group study of perfectionism shows that high-positive-low-negative perfectionist has the least anxiety and depression, high-positive-high-negative perfectionist takes the second place, low-positive-high-negative and low-positive-low-negative perfectionist has the most of them. The general procrastination has a significantly positive relationship with anxiety and depression, and the related degree is relatively high.4. The result of attribution process and attribution process of self-discrepancy, perfectionism and the general procrastination shows that for whole group’s self-discrepancy and the general procrastination, perfectionism has very limited influence. Positive perfectionism has significantly negative effect on self-discrepancy and the general procrastination, while negative perfectionism has significantly positive effect on them, but the effect is not significant.