Students may...

• Pursue excellence with no room for error

• Show up differently in various cultures and economic groups

• Have low frustration tolerance (which can trigger shutdown)

• Have issues with assignment completion due to questioning the quality of their own work

• Be more likely to display acting out behaviors

• Feel that anything less that 100% is failure

• Exhibit self-sabotaging behavior

• Hold self and others to extremely high standards and expectations which might be unattainable

• Be people pleasers

• Be highly skilled in specific areas while significantly behind in others (asynchronous)

• Be driven by aspirations or pursuit of excellence

• Be intrinsically motivated