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

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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)

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.

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  • Dominika Doktorová & Dominika Kochanová, 2021. "Typology of Perfectionists in the Context of Procrastination and Age among Female Students of Humanities," Revista romaneasca pentru educatie multidimensionala - Journal for Multidimensional Education, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 13(4), pages 359-372, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev1rl:v:13:y:2021:i:4:p:359-372
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/rrem/13.4/487
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    perfectionism typology; academic procrastination; age; female students; humanistic sciences;
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