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The purpose of this research is to study the positive-negative emotion of self-understanding and the role of perfectionism in university students. The research work group consists of 303 students randomly selected from students studying at the Ahmet Keleşoğlu Education Faculty of Necmettin Erbakan University. 248 of the participants (81.8 percent) are women and 55 percent (18.2 percent) are men. The working group’s average age is 20.51 (17-37 years old; Standard deviation: 2.15). The study used the ‘Self-Comprehension Scale’, ‘Positive-Negative Emotional Scale’ and ‘Frost Multi-Dimensional Excellence Scale’ as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, structural equality modeling was used. According to the research findings, self-understanding is a meaningful contributor to perfectionism, positive and negative feelings. Increased self-understanding in university students can lead to a reduction in excellence and negative feelings. In addition, an increase in self-understanding in university students can also lead to an increase in positive feeling. The results were discussed in the relevant literature framework and presented with suggestions.