Dataset of Vietnamese students' academic perfectionism and school alienation

Thanh-Thao Thi Phan; Linh-Chi Nguyen; Ngoc-Quang Nguyen; Yen-Chi Nguyen

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.107463

Dataset of Vietnamese students' academic perfectionism and school alienation

Data Brief. 2021 Oct 9:39:107463. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107463. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Thanh-Thao Thi Phan¹, Linh-Chi Nguyen², Ngoc-Quang Nguyen^{2

3}, Yen-Chi Nguyen²

Affiliations

¹ Thanh Do University, Hanoi 100000, Viet Nam.
² EdLab Asia Educational Research and Development Centre, Hanoi 100000, Viet Nam.
³ Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CS, the Netherlands.

Abstract

Across the steadily superseding world, the younger generation is coming under pressure for an increase in the standard and a highly growing demand on their life themselves. This could lead to a variety of problems, including academic perfectionism and school alienation. To gain more insights into these phenomena, we conducted two research projects on students from eight upper secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam using online surveys, and obtained two datasets. Dataset A covers (i) the level of students' perfectionism; (ii) belief in school meritocracy; (iii) The competitiveness among students; and (iv) the intrinsic motivation to achieve. Dataset B contains students' self-reports about (i) their perceptions of parents' and teachers' academic conditional regard; (ii) academic contingent self-worth; and (iii) school alienation. The numbers of respondents of dataset A and dataset B are 2942 and 2970, respectively.

Keywords: Classroom competitiveness; Contingent self-worth; Meritocracy belief; Parental conditional regard; School alienation; Student academic perfectionism; Teacher conditional regard; Vietnam.