Perfectionism is an important personality trait and has close relations with a number of psychological patterns and behaviors whose formational mechanisms entail the factor of perfectionism.Basic research questions of great significance such as varied definitions and controversies in its nature and characters still exist in the domain of perfectionism

calling for further discussions.This thesis intends to conduct a systematic summary of questions such as the defining

the measuring tool

and the theoretic modeling of perfectionism

the differentiation of positive and negative elements of perfectionism

and the study of the group congregation of perfectionism etc.

and propose to explore the core characters of perfectionism and broaden its research scope by enlisting multiple research methods in an attempt to establish China’s own psychological theoretic framework of perfectionism.