TY  - JOUR
TI  - An examination of the relation between 8th grade students’ level of academic risk taking and their positive and negative perfectionism traits
AB  - This research aims to analyze the relationship between positive and negative perfectionism traits and academic risk taking levels of 8th grade students. For this purpose relational model was used in the study. The sample was consisted of 216 Primary School students (114 girls and 102 boys) attending 8th grade during 2011-2012 academic year first semester in Battalgazi-Malatya. “Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale” developed by Kırdök (2004) to determine traits of students’ positive and negative perfectionism and “Academic Risk Taking Scale” developed by Clifford (1991) and was adapted to Turkish by Korkmaz (2002) to determine students’ academic risk taking levels were used. The obtained data were analyzed by means of SPSS 17.0 package program. To analyze the obtained data Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was used. According to the results obtained from the study it was found that there is a significant and positive relationship between positive and negative perfectionism and academic risk taking levels of students. It is determined that there is a significant and negative relationship between students’ negative perfectionism traits and their academic risk taking levels.
AU  - KILINÇ, Murat
AU  - KİNAY, İsmail
AU  - ÖNER SUNKUR, MERAL
AU  - İLHAN, Mustafa
PY  - 2013
JO  - Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi
VL  - 42
IS  - 2
SN  - 1302-9967
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/150415
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