Stöber, J. (). The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale: More perfect with four (instead of six) dimensions. Personality and Individual Differences. Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Hewitt, P.L., & Flett, G.L. (). Perfectionism and depression: A multidimensional analysis. Journal of Social Behavior. Abstract. Twenty-five years ago, one of the first empirically validated measures of perfectionism, the. Frost et al. Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (F-MPS).

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The co-operation of the students is gratefully acknowledged. Oxford Medical Publications; The dimensions of perfectionism. Introduction Perfectionism has been a topic of increased interest in recent years.
The scale factor structure was studied using the principal components method, with Varimax rotation and the Cattell’s Scree plot. With approximately million speakers, Portuguese is one of perfectionim most spoken languages in the world. How to cite this article. A hierarquical structural analysis of perfectionism and its relation to other personality characteristics. Perfectionism as a transdiagnostic process: The FMPS normative characteristics and inter-correlations are shown in table 3.
The Pearson correlation between the froost MPS scales total scores was high. Preliminary qualitative item analyses included the thinking aloud methodology with pilot participants and an experts panel.
Literature findings have indicated that perfectionism may be characterized by positive and negative dimensions, differently linked to various adaptive and maladaptive processes and outcomes. However, the Scree plot analysis showed a clear break after the fourth component Figure 1. Eur Eat Disord Rev. In which respects to the six factor solution, the inter-correlations between dimensions scores were moderate and ranged from.
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After that it was retranslated by a bilingual person blind to the study. An investigation of the factor structure of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale on the basis of the Australian population. In fact, it is the official language of countries belonging to all the continents: Profile of mood states. Factor 3 includes all the Organization O items. The Portuguese version revealed good psychometric properties 5.
In fact, recent literature fgost support that perfectionism and secondary appraisal are implicated in the stress response, by their association with cortisol increase and HPA axis activation Monte Carlo PCA for parallel analysis [computer software]. It is commonly viewed as mulltidimensional personality trait characterized by striving for flawlessness and by the setting of excessively high standards for performance which is accompanied by a tendency to be overly wcale of one’s behavior 1.
Perfectionism and stress process in psychopatology. The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale revisited: To compare two independent groups on continuous variables we used Student t-tests. The six factor solution.
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Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Frost Multidimensional perfectionism scale in women. The scale and all the four factors revealed a good internal consistency: After they agreed to participate, they filled in the questionnaires. These differences may be related to cultural differences and sample characteristics e. In frist research it would be important to study FMPS properties in non-college student samples, and in clinical samples, and further investigate how well the scale performs in distinguishing positive and negative processes and outcomes.
This research project was reviewed and approved by the Ethical Committee of the Frozt of Medicine of University of Coimbra. Considering the importance of research comparability, we decided to explore the two factorial solutions.
Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale – Stöber (1998)
There was complete adherence. These experts also analyzed the linguistic and conceptual equivalence.

J Pers Soc Psychol. One hundred eighty one PCA explained between 2. All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
