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Perfectionism: Good, Bad, or Growth?

Lauber, Elissa Ann
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1367171959

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2013, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, Psychology, General.
Perfectionism has been predominantly studied from a clinical perspective, and has only more recently been studied from a normative perspective. Luyckx et al. (2008) studied how personality differences in two facets of perfectionism—adaptive (striving for improvement) and maladaptive (striving for perfect performance)—relate to identity formation and well-being. However, no research has tested adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism experimentally to show how these two facets of perfectionism affect task performance and task motivation (i.e., the subjective experience of the task). In the current study, 78 University of Dayton participants were surveyed for personality characteristics relating to perfectionism and motivation and were then randomly assigned to one of two conditions, one eliciting a motivation for adaptive perfectionism and another for maladaptive perfectionism. Results show that participants primed with adaptive instructions found more solutions than participants primed with maladaptive instructions on the anagram task but no differences were found on the creativity test. Finally, personality did not affect performance; therefore, the interaction between person and situation was not evaluated.
Jack J. Bauer, PhD (Committee Chair)
R. Matthew Montoya, PhD (Committee Member)
Erin M. O'Mara, PhD (Committee Member)
64 p.
Social Psychology
Perfectionism; Adaptive; Maladaptive; Motivation; Growth; Intrinsic; Extrinsic; Passion; Harmonious; Obsessive

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  • Lauber, E. A. (2013). Perfectionism: Good, Bad, or Growth? [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1367171959

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lauber, Elissa. Perfectionism: Good, Bad, or Growth? . 2013. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1367171959.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lauber, Elissa. "Perfectionism: Good, Bad, or Growth? ." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1367171959

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