Classifying Perfectionists among Chinese College Students Through Almost Perfect Scale

• Main Authors: Liu, Yu-Ling, 劉又綾
• Other Authors: 李俊仁
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76571459647258327578

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 103 === According to the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R), one could be classfied as an adaptive perfectionist, a maladaptive perfectionist, or a non-perfectionist. But the three types of categories were challenged by a study which recruited Chinese students as participants. The fourth type was mentioned as a group with low standard score and high discrepancy score. The fourth group was further implicated as related to Chinese culture. It was suggested that the source of discrepancy was from the difference between parents’ expectation and one’s performance. This study aimed to employ statistical methods to examine whether three-type or four-type categories among Chinese would be appropriate through the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R), and to examine what cut-point was more proper in classifying whether one is a perfectionist and further to differentiate whether one is adaptive or maladaptive perfectionist. This study also examined the concordance rate between individuals’ self-consciousness of perfectionism with APSR scale’s classification. In Study 1, the “APS-R”, “Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale”, the “Beck Depression Inventory” and “Satisfaction with Life Scale” were employed. Cluster analyses, discriminant function analyses, and receiver operating characteristic curves for sensitivity and specificity of APS-R cut-scores were used to examine three or four type among Chinese would be appropriate. The result supported the three-cluster solution (maladaptive perfectionism, adaptive perfectionism and nonperfectionism). The cut points were high standards scores of 35.5, and discrepancy scores of 51.5. Based on the results of this study, suggestions were provided to counseling practitioners and researchers for further research in relevant fields. KEY WORDS: classification, cut-point, perfectionism