Dimensions Of Family Function Among College Students With Bifferent Types Of Perfectionism

• Main Authors: Hung, Yu-Ting, 洪于婷
• Other Authors: Ko,Huei-Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97262506946877006960

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 心理學系碩士班 === 100 === Background and Purpose The relationship between family functioning and perfectionism is yet to be explored. Based on the two dimensions analyzed from Frost’s six-factor Perfectionism Scale measurement, i.e. "positive efforts" (positive striving) and "over-concerned about evaluation "(maladaptive evaluation concerns), participants were divided into four groups, which are, Group 1 "high positive efforts, and not overly concerned about the evaluation” (earned high scores on positive efforts but low scores on over-concerned about evaluation), Group 2 " high positive efforts and overly concerned about evaluation” (earned high scores on both positive efforts and overly concerned about evaluation), Group 3“low positive efforts, and overly concerned about evaluation” (earned high scores on positive efforts but low scores on overly concerned about evaluation) and Group 4 “low positive efforts and not overly concerned about evaluation” (earned low scores on both positive efforts and overly concerned about evaluation). This study was designed to compare the differences of the above four groups of college students in respective of family functioning, thereby clarifying the relationship between family functioning and perfectionism. Research Methodology The study adopted random sampling method according to combination of various layers. In 2006, questionnaires were conducted among 2,955 college students of 14 institutions of higher educational in southern part of Taiwan. The effective questionnaires amounted to 2190 copies, which accounted for 74.1% of the entire samples. The instruments applied were individual basic information sheet, simple family function capacity sheet, and Chinese version multi-dimensional perfectionism measurement sheet. Result The study discovered primarily that four different types of perfectionism varied in eight indicators including factors such as concentration power, emotion expression, communication, problem resolving, independency, family obligation, conflict, and emotional involvement. The major differences are as follows. Group 1 " earned higher scores than other three group in aspect of concentration power, emotion expression, communication, problem resolving, independency, family obligation and other positive family functioning, but lower scores in respect of emotional involvement. For "conflict", it is similar with group 3, but still lower than the other two groups.Group 2 achieved higher scores on "conflict" and "emotional involvement" than other groups other than group 4. For concentration power, it is higher than group 4 but is lower than the other two groups. In addition, for "emotional expression", it is lower than "group 1 and no significant differences with the other two groups. As of "Communication", "problem solving", "independence", "family responsibilities", it is lower than group 1 but higher than group 4 and no big difference with group 3.Group 3 earned similar scores with group 2 on" conflict "but higher scores than the other two groups. For Emotional involvement, it got much higher scores than the other three groups. In addition, on the "emotional expression", it is below group 1 and no differences with the other two groups. However, the score of "concentration power", "communication", "problem solving", "independence", the score of "family responsibility" are lower than the other three groups.Group 4 got higher scores than group 1 but higher scored than group 3 in respect of" concentration power "and" emotional expression "," communication "," problem solving "," independence "," family responsibilities. For emotional involvement, the scores are higher than group 1 but lower than other two groups. In addition, for “conflict ", it has no significant difference with group 1, but much lower than the other two groups. Conclusion The study was the first attempt to explore the discrepancy in family functions according to different dimensions of perfectionist types. It clarified that the family functioning of different types of perfectionism varies. It also found that “positive effort” perfectionism is related to the following family functioning, concentration power, emotion expression, positive communication, problem resolving, independency, family obligation; “overly concerned about evaluation” is linked with conflict, and emotional involvement; college students of Group 1 "high positive efforts, and not overly concerned about the evaluation” occupy the most perfect family functioning, followed by Group 4 “low positive efforts and not overly concerned about evaluation”, then Group 2 " high positive efforts and overly concerned about evaluation” and Group 3“low positive efforts, and overly concerned about evaluation” indicates the worst family functioning among the four groups.