Academic motivation and academic self-efficacy are two components which are necessary to be successful in higher education. An academically motivated student wants to learn, likes learning-related activities, and believes school is important. Furthermore, if a student has strong academic self-efficacy, s/he has the conviction that s/he can successfully attain at a nominated level on an academic task or achieve a particular academic goal. On the other hand, in psychology perfectionism is a personality feature characterized by a person's determined for flawlessness and setting excessively high performance standards, accompanied by overly critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations. Sometimes, perfectionist people pressure themselves to achieve unobtainable goals which lead them to be disappointed and unsuccessful. In this study it is aimed to investigate how perfectionism level of higher education students affects their academic motivation and academic self-efficacy. Correlational analysis method is being conducted to evaluate the results of the study. The sample of the study is the university students studying in different departments of a university. As the data analysis has not been completed yet, it is assumed to obtain a significant correlation between academic motivation and perfectionism, and also between academic self-efficacy and perfectionism.

Key words: academic motivation; acdemic self-efficacy; perfectionism; higher education