Students Perfectionism Study On Emotional Adjustment Mechanism

Perfectionism psychology is one of the important diagnostic criteria in DSM-Ⅲ.It was believed to be involved in the formation of a variety of psychological and development. A large number of studies have found that perfectionism and emotional adjustment are closely related. However, it is lacking of research on working mechanism about perfectionism to emotional adjustment for a long time.By using the Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale, the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation, the Self-Esteem Scale, the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and the Self-Rating Depression Scale, the present study explored characteristic of adolescents'positive perfection,negative perfection, self-esteem, anxiety, depression and its relationship. The formal subjects were 508 colleges of Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology. The results were as follows:(1)Validity and reliability analyses showed that The Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale were acceptable;(2) The poins of Positive Perfectionism were higher than poins of Negative Perfectionism of colleges. On the positive and negative perfectionism dimensions, the points of arts colleges were higher than science colleges.There was no significant difference between grades, gender and nation;(3)Girls'points of other-affirmation were higher than boys, but girls'points of self-esteem were lower than boys;(4) There was positive relationship between other-affirmation and negative emotions.There was negative relationship between self-esteem and negative emotions;(5)There was positive relationship between positive perfectionism and self-esteem;There was positive relationship between negative perfectionism and other-affirmation.There was negative relationship between negative perfectionism and self-esteem;(6) Other-affirmation play significant intermediary roles between negative perfectionism and negative emotions;(7) self-esteem play significant intermediary roles between positive perfectionism,negative perfectionism and negative emotions;(8)Other-affirmation and self-esteem play significant intermediary roles between perfectionism and negative emotions.