Psychological Development and Education ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 365-373.

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The Characteristics of Perfectionism and its Relationship with Prosocial Tendencies

ZHANG Lan-ge1, ZHANG Li2, KOU Yu1, TIAN Qi-rui1   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Tuanjiehu No.3 Middle School, Beijing 100026
  • Online:2011-07-15 Published:2011-07-15

Abstract: Simply correlation,Canonical correlation analysis and Regression analysis were used together to explore the correlations between perfectionism and prosocial tendencies on middle school students by means of the revised Hewitt's Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (HMPS) and prosocial tendencies measure.The results were as fol lows:(1) middle school students reported self-oriented perfectionism the most,followed by socially-prescribed perfectionism,and other-oriented perfectionism the least; (2) they took altruistic prosocial tendency most,followed by emotional,dire,compliant,anonymous,and public prosocial tendency,respectively.(3) Self-oriented perfec tionism was positively correlated to all six kinds of prosocial tendency,other-oriented and socially-prescribed per fectionism only positively correlated to public prosocial tendency.Canonical correlation analysis indicated that,ca nonical variables mainly stood for the altruistic,compliant and public prosocial tendencies; these prosocial tenden cies were mainly explained by self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism.(4) Regression analysis indicated that,only self-oriented perfectionism entered regression equation.Except the effect of grade,gender and the school type,self-oriented perfectionism can account for 2.6%,2.8%,7.2%,7.4%,7.0%,5.0% of the variance for public,anonymous,altruistic,compliant,emotional,dire prosocial tendency,respectively.

Key words: perfectionism, middle school students, prosocial tendency, canonical correlation analysis

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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