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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies 12/2016

17-09-2016 | Original Paper

Personal and Family Perfectionism in Chinese School Students: Relationships with Learning Stress, Learning Satisfaction and Self-Reported Academic Performance Level

Auteurs: Hongfei Yang, Wuqiu Guo, Shiyi Yu, Lin Chen, Haozhe Zhang, Linghui Pan, Chenxi Wang, Edward C. Chang

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 12/2016

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Abstract

The present study investigated the types of personal and family perfectionism, and their associations with learning stress, learning satisfaction, and self-reported academic performance level among 1020 Chinese elementary and high school students. Participants were categorized into three types for both perfectionists and perfectionistic families using cluster analysis. Subtypes were identified for perfectionists with regard to perfectionistic families. Adaptive perfectionists, who perceived their families as adaptive perfectionistic, reported better psychological outcome than other subtypes. Family perfectionism explained an additional 1–14 % of variances in psychological outcome over personal perfectionism. The findings suggest that family perfectionism plays a role in psychological outcome.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Personal and Family Perfectionism in Chinese School Students: Relationships with Learning Stress, Learning Satisfaction and Self-Reported Academic Performance Level
Auteurs
Hongfei Yang
Wuqiu Guo
Shiyi Yu
Lin Chen
Haozhe Zhang
Linghui Pan
Chenxi Wang
Edward C. Chang
Publicatiedatum
17-09-2016
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 12/2016
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0524-4

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