Typology of Perfectionists in the Context of Procrastination and Age among Female Students of Humanities

Dominika Doktorová () and Dominika Kochanová ()
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Dominika Doktorová: Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, UCM in Trnava, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia
Dominika Kochanová: Postgraduate student (PhD.) at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, UCM in Trnava, in the study programme General and Experimental Psychology, Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Slovakia

Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 359-372

Abstract: The study aims to find out the connection between perfectionists according to Parker (1997), Doktorová & Piteková, (2020a) namely functional, dysfunctional perfectionists and non-perfectionists, academic procrastination, and age in female students. Two questionnaires were used during the research, namely the Frost's Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (F-MPS) and the Procrastination Scale for Student population (PSS), which we administered to the research sample (N = 344) in the age span of 18 to 25. Through the non-hierarchical cluster analysis (k-means) we identified three types of perfectionists in the sample. The comparison of three types of perfectionism with academic procrastination showed statistically significant differences in the following way: the dysfunctional perfectionists achieved the highest score on the scale of academic procrastination compared with functional perfectionists and non-perfectionists. Furthermore, we did not identify statistically significant differences between typology of perfectionism and age.

Keywords: perfectionism typology; academic procrastination; age; female students; humanistic sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.18662/rrem/13.4/487

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