Perfectionism and goal orientations among chinese gifted students in Hong Kong

Perfectionism and goal orientations among chinese gifted students in Hong Kong

• Chan, David W. Dept. of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Roeper Review, 31(1), 9-17, 2009

Routledge

2009

• E Special Education
  • EC Education for the Gifted & Talented Learners
• B Human Behaviour
  • BB Interests, Attitudes & Values

Perfectionism (Personality Trait) Chinese Students Gifted Children Social Goals Learning Goals Education -- Aims & Objectives Hong Kong China

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education
• Secondary Education

Positive and negative perfectionism as well as four goal orientations were assessed in a sample of 315 Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong. These students tended to endorse positive perfectionism more than negative perfectionism and prefer learning and social goals over performance and avoidance goals. Learning and social goal orientations emerged as significant predictors in the prediction of positive perfectionism, whereas performance and avoidance goal orientations emerged as significant predictors for negative perfectionism. Implications of the findings for promoting healthy strivings for excellence through setting different goals are discussed.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 02783193

• 10.1080/02783190802527331

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/cf4f3a9d

2010-11-24