When perfectionism is coupled with low achievement: The effects on academic engagement and help seeking in middle school

作者：Shim Sungok Serena^*; Rubenstein Lisa DaVia; Drapeau Christopher W

来源：Learning and Individual Differences, 2016, 45: 237-244.

DOI：10.1016/j.lindif.2015.12.016

• Personal standards
• Concern over mistakes
• Perfectionism
• Academic help-seeking behavior among peers
• Academic engagement
• Early adolescence
• Middle school

With a sample of 169 middle school students, the current study examined how two dimensions of perfectionism (i.e., personal standards [PS] and concern over mistakes [COM]) are related to academic engagement and help seeking behavior among peers in math classes. After controlling for gender and math achievement, COM was unrelated to most outcome variables but was positively related to. This pattern was stronger among students with low PS. While PS was related to a desirable pattern of engagement (i.e., higher behavioral engagement, emotional engagement, and adaptive help seeking among peers), this was not the case for low-achieving students. Although modest in magnitude, the significant interactions suggested that PS did not buffer low-achieving students against expedient help seeking and disruptive behaviors.

• 出版日期2016-1
• 单位南宁师范大学