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Effects of Self-oriented and Other-oriented․ Socially prescribed Perfectionism on Self-Regulated Learning and Test Anxiety for Korean High School Students

이현주 1 Sohn, Won Sook 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to confirm the structural relationship among perfectionism tendency, self-regulated learning, and test anxiety. Also this study would examine if the mediating effect of self-regulatory learning is moderated by the school type such as special high schools with high-performing students and general high schools. The subjects of this study were 795 high school students(413 from special high schools, and 382 from general high schools) sampled from D city, Korea. The survey instruments used for this study were Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale(MPS), Self-Regulated Learning Scale(SRLS) and Anxiety Responses in Testing Scale(ARTS). The results indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between sub-factors of self-oriented perfectionism and the ones of self-regulated learning. Also there was a significant positive correlation between other-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism and test anxiety. The students attending to special schools tended to show the higher self-oriented perfectionism and self-regulated learning than those in general high schools, while showing the lower test anxiety in cognitive domain. Second, the self-regulated learning significantly mediated between two types of perfectionism and test anxiety. Considering the size of effects, the direct and indirect effects between self-oriented perfectionism and test anxiety were relatively similar, but the direct effect between other-oriented․socially prescribed perfectionism and test anxiety was the larger than its indirect effect. Finally, the moderated mediating effect of self-regulated learning between perfectionism and test anxiety by school types was not significant. The findings are discussed with reference to the literature on multidimensional perfectionism. Practical and methodological implications of studying perfectionism are also discussed.

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