The Effect of Socially Prescribed Perfectionism on Career Indecision among College Students: Mediating Effects of Social Comparison Tendency and Trait Anxiety

Key Points

• This research aims to examine the effect of socially prescribed perfectionism on career indecision and the mediating effects of social comparison tendency and trait anxiety.
• Survey conducted with 338 college students to assess perfectionism, indecision, social comparison, and anxiety.
• Data analyzed using SPSS's PROCESS Macro Model 6.
• Bootstrapping method applied to test the statistical significance of mediation effects.
• No significant direct effect of socially prescribed perfectionism on career indecision was observed.
• The mediation effect through trait anxiety was found to be significant.
• A significant double mediation pathway involving both social comparison tendency and trait anxiety was confirmed.

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