A Study on the Correlation Analysis between Perfectionism and Employment Anxiety in Evaluation of University Students majoring in Tourism

This study attempted to verify the mediating effect of social comparison tendency in the relationship between perfectionism of evaluation concern and employment anxiety of college students majoring in tourism. To this end, a questionnaire was conducted on 166 students enrolled in two-year, three-year, colleges and four-year universities in the metropolitan area, and SPSS 25.0 was used for statistical analysis. Summarize the main results of this study, first, perfectionism of concerns affects Employment Anxiety. Second, evaluation-concerned perfectionism affects social comparison trends. Third, social comparison trends affect Employment anxiety. Fourth, social comparison trends were found to show partial mediation in the relationship between evaluation-concerning perfectionism and Employment anxiety. This study is meaningful in that it was conducted on college students majoring in tourism, unlike previous studies conducted on college students. It was also meaningful in that it was a study on the effects of evaluation concern perfectionism, Employment anxiety, and social comparison tendency on the relationship between sub-factors. Based on the results of this study, we shared practical implications and limitations of providing in-depth counseling in the context of counseling and guidance for students majoring in tourism, and discussed suggestions for follow-up research.