Controlling Parenting, Perfectionism, and Academic and Social Achievement Goals Among Elite Chinese High School Students

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  In Poster Session: Familial and Cultural Contexts in Human Development

Abstract

The current study investigated the mediating role of perfectionism (i.e., personal standard and concern over mistakes) in the effects of psychologically controlling parenting on academic and social achievement goals among 1,096 Chinese elite high school students using structural equation modeling. The patterns obtained were similar across academic and social achievement goal models and across mothers’ report and children’s report. The data indicated that psychologically controlling parenting was significantly linked to maladaptive concern over mistakes, which in turn was associated with high performance approach and avoidance goals but low mastery goals. Even though personal standard was related to all three types of achievement goals, it showed the largest association with mastery goals across academic and social domains.

Authors

• Cen Wang, Charles Sturt University

• Sungok Serena Shim, Ball State University

• Qian Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong