Despite findings suggesting that perfectionism may have important implications for individuals' career development, little research has examined adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism within a career decision-making context. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of perfectionism type on the ipsative career self-efficacy, relative career self-efficacy, vocational identity, and interest differentiation of college students. Participants included 185 undergraduate students who volunteered to participate in a research pool in exchange for course credit. Score profiles on the Revised Almost Perfect Scale (APS-R) were used to categorize participants into groups of adaptive perfectionists, maladaptive perfectionists, and non-perfectionists; the Competencies and Self-Estimates scales of the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were used to measure ipsative and relative career self-efficacy, respectively; the Vocational Identity scale (VIS) of the My Vocational Situation (MVS) was used to measure vocational identity; and the Iachan Differentiation Index score from the SDS was used to measure interest differentiation. A one-way between-groups multivariate analysis of variance found that perfectionism type accounted for a significant amount of the total variance (9.8%) among the four dependent variables. Follow-up univariate analyses of variance and post-hoc pairwise comparisons found that both adaptive perfectionists and maladaptive perfectionists demonstrated greater levels of relative career self-efficacy than non-perfectionists, and that adaptive perfectionists demonstrated a greater level of vocational identity than both maladaptive perfectionists and non-perfectionists. No significant group differences of perfectionism type were identified with respect to ipsative career self-efficacy or interest differentiation. Results of this study support the relevance of perfectionism to career development, and limitations and implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2013. / June 10, 2013. / Career Self-Efficacy, Interest Differentiation, Perfectionism, Vocational
Identity / Includes bibliographical references. / James P. Sampson, Jr., Professor Directing Dissertation; Gerald R. Ferris, University Representative; Janet G. Lenz, Committee Member; Debra S. Osborn, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_183838 |
| Contributors | Musch, Elisabeth (authoraut), Sampson, James P. (professor directing dissertation), Ferris, Gerald R. (university representative), Lenz, Janet G. (committee member), Osborn, Debra S. (committee member), Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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