Chinese Students Perfectionism Scale Research

Perfectionism is a kind of mental feature that affects personality significantly. In addition, there has always been a close association among psychopathological phenomenon, pathological phenomenon and perfectionism. It exists universally in undergraduates and middle school students, especially in students of high quality, so that this phenomenon has been paid close attention by the experts in education and psychology. However, ever since a long time ago, there are several important issues that need to be resolved, for instance, valid exploration and recognition for the concrete mental structure of perfectionism, finding and verifying the differing aspects between adaptive elements and non-adaptive elements of perfectionism, scaling according to localization.On the basis of analyzing and inducting the related foreign documents, this paper has done a trial research to the implicit concept and mental structure of perfectionism according to the methods of lexics, and classified the collected diagnostic words or sentences, then established the list of items and re-explored the mental structure of perfectionism in accordance with the classifying, finally, it tested the remained items in terms of validity and reliability. Conclusions are drawn as follows:Firstly, at the angle of the causing of perfectionism, there exists several core features ofperfectionism, such as introspection, high standards, organization, perfect expectation, worryingabout mistakes, paying more attention to important others' demands;Secondly, in terms of interpersonal relationships, perfectionism has such core features asself-oriented perfectionism, comparing with others, other-oriented perfectionism, sociallyprescribed and other-other- prescribed perfectionism;Thirdly, perfectionism may be seen as two-dimensional structure, i.e. positive perfectionismwith adaption, negative perfectionism with non-adaption. The former one is formed withintrospection, high standards, organization, perfect expectation, self-oriented perfectionism andcomparing with others. The latter one is made up of worrying about mistakes, demands ofimportant others, other-oriented perfectionism, socially prescribed and other-other- prescribedperfectionism;Finally, the two scales are created with relatively ideal structure validity and content validity,moreover, their reliability reaches the ideal demands of statistics, a coefficient of internalconsistency is between 0.73 and 0.92.