Perfectionism and academic engagement, the mediating role of passion for the studies

This dataset includes responses from 545 distance-learning university students who participated in a study analyzing the relationship between perfectionism and academic engagement, and the mediating role of passion. The dataset contains scores from validated questionnaires measuring Academic Engagement, Perfectionism (self-oriented and socially prescribed), and Passion (harmonious and obsessive), along with sociodemographic data such as age, gender, university affiliation, and field of study. The study employed a quasi-experimental design and mediation analyses using Partial Least Squares (PLS) with SmartPLS software.