The Present Situation Of Middle School Students' Perfectionism And Influence Factors Of Depression

Perfectionism's influence on the mental health is well known. As the research of Perfectionism continued so far, perfectionism has grown from one dimension variable to personal trait, which has both positive and negative components. Scholars have also changed their view from the negative influence of maladaptive perfectionism to perfectionism's dual characters. Depression refers to negative emotions that lack of happiness. Stressful events, one's self-awareness, as well as the environment can affect individual's level of depression. Depression caused a certain impact on adolescence's daily life and learning. In this study, middle school students were the research object, filled out rumination scale, self-compassion scale, Almost perfective scale, and CES-D scale respectively to analysis the situation of subjects' depression, perfectionism; the relationship of perfectionism, rumination, self-compassion, and depression.Conclusions are as follows:First, the differences in gender, grade, single child and mothers' educational level of perfectionism of middle school students are statistically significant.Second, Adaptive perfectionists' proportion is higher than maladaptive perfectionists. The adaptive perfectionists account for 34.91%; maladaptive perfectionists account for 27.96%; non-perfectionists account for 37.13%.Third, maladaptive perfectionists have higher level of depression and rumination than adaptive perfectionists and non-perfectionists.Fourth, perfectionism and subscales, rumination and its subscales, self-compassion, and depression are significant correlated to each other.Fifth, self-compassion is the partial mediator between perfectionism and depression; rumination is the partial mediator between perfectionism and depression. Self-compassion and rumination have multiple mediation effect between perfectionism and depression.