Perfectionism, Performance, and State Positive Affect and Negative Affect After a Classroom Test

Autor:	Paul L. Hewitt, Gordon L. Flett, Kirk R. Blankstein
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Poison control Context (language use) Perfectionism (psychology) Affect (psychology) medicine.disease_cause Test (assessment) Developmental and Educational Psychology Trait medicine Anxiety Big Five personality traits medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 24:4-18
ISSN:	2154-3984 0829-5735
DOI:	10.1177/0829573509332457
Popis:	The current study examined the associations among trait dimensions of perfectionism, test performance, and levels of positive and negative affect after taking a test. A sample of 92 female university students completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale one week prior to an actual class test. Measures of positive affect and negative affect were obtained immediately following the classroom test. It was found that socially prescribed perfectionism is associated significantly with lower positive affect, greater negative affect, and poorer test performance. In contrast, self-oriented perfectionism is associated significantly with higher state positive affect but not with test performance or with state negative affect. Other-oriented perfectionism is associated significantly with both positive affect and enhanced test performance. The results are discussed in terms of the need to examine trait dimensions of perfectionism within the context of ongoing and actual performance outcomes experienced by perfectionistic students.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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