Abstract

This study investigated the effect of perfectionism and introversive - extroversive personality on negative emotion after stressful experience. Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale(MPS), Myers Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI) were administered to 503 college students. After dividing introversive-self-oriented perfectionists group, extroversive - self-oriented perfectionists group, introversive-socially perscribed perfectionists group, extroversive-socially perscribed perfectionists group, introversive-nonperfectionists group, extroversive- nonperfectionists group on a basis of the MPS and MBTI scores, subjects experienced stressful examination induced by Levin's discrimination task. Then subjects responded to the MAACL(Multiple Affect Adjestive Check List), before and after stressful experience. The major findings of the persent study were as follows: First, perfectionist group showed a higher level of negative emotion, especially anger and depressive affect than nonperfectionist group after stressful experience. Second, self-oriented perfectionist group showed a higher level of negative emotion and depressive affect than socially prescribed perfectionist group, after stressful experience. Third, there were no differences in the level of negative emotion between extroversive-perfectionist group and introversive-perfectionist group after stressful experience. The suggestions and the limitations of this study, and the directions of future study were discussed.

• Keywords: Stress, Perfectionism, Introversion-Extroversion of Personality;