The Relation Research Of Perfectionism, Self-Esteem And Self-handicapping On University Students

This research makes a survey on the Perfectionism, Self-Esteem and Self-handicapping of the university students, and discusses the relationships among them. The main purpose is to provide more information for the research of Perfectionism, Self-Esteem and Self-handicapping among the university students, enrich our research in this field and also to provide additional guidance to solve Self-handicapping of college students.The research adopted random sampling method and stratified sampling together. We selected830members from several universities, such as Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, Hebei Medical University and Hebei Normal University. This research adopted the Questionnaires of Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, FMPS and Self-Handicapping Scale among the university students. All effective data was analyzed by the means of descriptive statistics, T test, analysis of variance, correlation analysis and regression analysis.This study makes the following conclusions:(1) Generally speaking, College students’self-handicapping level is under the average level, Through comparing the gender difference, it is showed that the scores of males are higher than those of females; Comparing whether singleton or not difference, it is shown that the scores of Self-Handicapping of singletons are much higher than those of non-singletons; Comparing the grade difference, there are significant differences among higher grades and lower grades, it is shown that the scores of higher grades are much higher than those of lower grades.(2)There is significant correlation between Perfectionism and Self-Esteem of the university students. In addition, there is a positive relation between Adaptive Perfectionism and Self-Esteem, whereas there is a negative relation between Unaptive Perfectionism and Self-Esteem.(3) There is a marked correlation between Perfectionism and Self-handicapping of the university students. The dimension of organization has a negative correlation with Self-handicapping significantly, that means there is significant negative correlation between Adaptive Perfectionism and Self-handicapping of the university students; The dimensions, concerning mistakes, doubts of actions and parental expectation Of Perfectionism, have a positive correlation with Self-handicapping. Namely, that is to say there is significant a positive correlation between Adaptive Perfectionism and Self-handicapping.(4) Significantly, there is a negative correlation between Self-Esteem and Self-handicapping of University students.(5)The university students’Perfectionism can predict their Self-Esteem and Self-handicapping. At the same time, Self-Esteem can predict Self-handicapping.(6) Self-esteem mediates the relationship between Perfectionism and Self-handicapping, that is to say, Perfectionism influences Self-handicapping by Self-Esteem.