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The perception of perfectionism, which is an indicator of the emotions that individuals experience in the process of achieving the best; depression, anxiety, stress, exhaust, etc. It is seen as a risk factor. On the other hand, it is believed that the perception of perfectionism can be evaluated positively in some dimensions. Starting from the discussions at this point, the current study is aimed at examining the question whether the effects of the subdimensions of perfectionism on the concepts that can be positively and negatively assessed are similar or not, and to obtain conclusions on the direction in which the effects of the subdimensions for university students are to be sample. For this purpose, positive and negative, respectively, self-respect and stress variables have been addressed and the relationships with the subdimensions of perfectionism have been modeled. The study also took into account measurement errors and made forecasts with structural equality models producing stronger forecast results. This study found that university students’ perceptions of perfectionism have statistically meaningful effects on stress and self-esteem, as well as that self-esteem has a mediation effect for some subdimensions of perfectionism. The results of the analysis have found that the four dimensions of perfectionism have a direct impact on stress, and all its dimensions have a direct impact on self-esteem. The findings of this study have been supported by the results obtained in previous studies as well as the evidence that the multi-dimensional structure of perfectionism for the current sample contains more information than the one-dimensional structure.

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