Abstract

Although previous research has identified that perfectionism is associated with both narcissism and workaholism, research into the specific roles of potential perfectionism classes in these personality dynamics is currently unavailable. Furthermore, no study has investigated if the “useless superiority effort” dimension of inferiority feelings, which indicates an increased need for superiority over others potentially to overcome self-perceived inferiorities, is related to other important personality dynamics. This study was therefore conducted to identify if potential perfectionism classes that exist among academicians (N = 317) can simultaneously explain significant differences in their tendencies toward workaholism, narcissism, and useless superiority effort, after controlling for potential social desirability effect. A latent class analysis of two dimensions of perfectionism (discrepancy and high standards) revealed four distinct classes of academicians; non-perfectionists (NONPs; 20%), maladaptive perfectionists (MPs; 17%), normal perfectionists (NPs; 44%) and adaptive perfectionists (APs; 19%). Further analysis (MANCOVA) showed that while MPs have the highest tendencies toward workaholism and useless superiority effort, NONPs have the lowest tendencies toward these. Moreover, APs reported significantly lower useless superiority than NPs, despite scoring similarly on both narcissism and workaholism. Additionally, based on workaholism being related to narcissism, high standards and discrepancy dimensions of perfectionism, as well as useless superiority effort, while weekly work hours are not, it can be suggested that workaholism is qualitatively different from working long hours.

摘要

尽管先前的研究已经确定完美主义与自恋和工作狂有关，但目前尚无法研究潜在完美主义类别在这些人格动态中的具体作用。此外，没有研究调查自卑感的“无用的优越性努力”维度是否与其他重要的人格动态有关，这表明对超越他人的优越感的需求增加可能会克服自我感知的自卑感。因此，本研究旨在确定院士中是否存在潜在的完美主义课程（N = 317）在控制潜在的社会期望效应后，可以同时解释他们在工作狂、自恋和无用的优越性努力方面的显着差异。对完美主义的两个维度（差异和高标准）的潜在阶级分析揭示了四种不同的院士阶级；非完美主义者（NONP；20%）、适应不良的完美主义者（MP；17%）、正常完美主义者（NP；44%）和适应性完美主义者（AP；19%）。进一步分析 (MANCOVA) 表明，虽然 MP 具有最高的工作狂倾向和无用的优越努力，但 NONP 的倾向最低。此外，尽管自恋和工作狂的得分相似，AP 报告的无用优势明显低于 NP。此外，