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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.9.5875

The Moderating Effect of Unconditional Self-Acceptance on the Relationship between Perfectionism and Multicultural Attitude  

Lee, Hyun-Mi (Department of Counseling Psychology, Graduate School of Hanyang Cyber University)
Ha, Jung-Hee (Department of Adolescent Counseling, Hanyang Cyber University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.9, 2015 , pp. 5875-5887 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research aimed to investigate the relations of perfectionism and multicultural attitude upon a premise that sub-factors of the perfectionism : self-oriented perfectionism, other-oriented perfectionism and socially-prescribed perfectionism are related to multicultural attitude and to examine the moderation effect of self-acceptance on the relation between perfectionism and multicultural attitude. The questionnaires designed to measure multidimensional perfectionism, unconditional self-acceptance and multicultural attitude were administered to 258 office workers in Seoul and Gyeoggi-Do. The results from correlation analysis and regression analysis were as followed. First, sub-factors of the perfectionism was partially associated with sub-factors of multicultural attitude. In particular two sub-factors of the perfectionism : 'self-oriented perfectionism', 'other-oriented perfectionism' yielded effect on multicultural attitude, controlling the effects of other subscales. Second, unconditional self-acceptance moderated the relation between 'self oriented perfectionism' and sub-factor of the multicultural attitude : 'recognizing difference'. And unconditional self-acceptance moderated the relation between 'socially prescribed perfectionism' and sub-factors of the multicultural attitude : 'recognizing difference', 'openness and acceptance'. This present findings not only extend understandings about relationship between perfectionism and multicultural attitude by examining self-concept : unconditional self-acceptance but also provide that it isn't helpful that further support and rationale for unconditional self-acceptance as intervention for targets to focus in counseling process for those who suffer from perfectionism.
Keywords
multicultural attitude; perfectionism; self-oriented perfectionism; other-oriented perfectionism; socially-prescribed perfectionism; unconditional self-acceptance; multicultural attitude; recognizing difference; openness and acceptance;
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