College students' perfectionism and task-strategy inefficience : Why their efforts go unrewarded?
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- ISHIDA Hiroaki
- Graduate School of Sociology, Toyo University
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- Other Title
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- 大学生の完全主義傾向と課題解決方略の非効率性 : なぜ彼らの努力は報われないのか
- ダイガクセイ ノ カンゼン シュギ ケイコウ ト カダイ カイケツ ホウリャク ノ ヒコウリツセイ ナゼ カレ ラ ノ ドリョク ワ ムクワレナイ ノ カ
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Abstract
The present study explored perfectionists' task-strategy and its inefficiency in the information-seeking task from the misregulation perspective. Participants were divided into two groups on the basis of Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (PCI). Twenty-eight students, 15 high- and 13 low-perfectionism participants, were asked to prepare for the test by gathering information, which was designated as either important or unimportant. The amount of unimportant information was regarded as a tangential strategy, such that too much effort or excessive persistence would impair the efficiency in the task. The hypothesis tested was that high perfectionists' inefficient strategy would lead to a drop of their test score. The results suggested that high-perfectionists collect unimportant information more than low-perfectionists, and resulting in them attaining a lower test score. Our findings indicated that perfectionists' high motivation and adherence to problem solving, coupled with their use of careful strategy, could backfire.
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of Social Psychology
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Japanese Journal of Social Psychology 20 (3), 208-215, 2005
The Japanese Society of Social Psychology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001204492020736
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- NII Article ID
- 110002785445
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- NII Book ID
- AN10049127
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- ISSN
- 21891338
- 09161503
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- NDL BIB ID
- 7299810
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed