Document Type : Research Article
Authors
1 Faculty member of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
2 PhD student of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
Abstract
This study was launched to construct a scale for the measurement of perfecticinism. Using factor analyis, a scale entitled Ahvaz Perfectionism Scale (APS) was constructed, and its test-retest and internal consistency reliability coefficients were found to be statistically significant: Coopersmith Self-Esteem Scale, Type A Questionnaire (TAQ; a scale tapping type A behavioral pattern) and physical complaints subscale of SCL9O-R. The results sho that female subjects score significantly higher than male subjects on APS. According to the present findings, APS appears to be a reliable and valid instrument which could be widely used in the future psychological studies and research projects.
York: Harper.
Burns, D. D. (1980). Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. New York: New American library.
Burns, D. D. (1983). The spouse who is a perfectionist. Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 17, 219-230.
Burns, D. D. & Beck, A. T. (1987). Cognitive behavior modification of mood disorders. In J. P. Foreyt & D. P. Rathjen (Eds.), cognitive Behavior Therapy (PP. 109-134). New York: Plenum Press.
Derogatis, L. R. (1983). Manual for the SCL-90-R. towson, MD: Clinical Psychometric Research.
Flett, 0. L., Blankstein, K. R., Bator, C., & Pliner, P. (1989). Affect intensity and self-control- of.-. emotional behaviour. Personality and Individual Differences.
Flett, G. L., Hewitt, P. L. Blankstein, K. R. and O’Brien, S. (1991). Perfectionism and learned resource fulness in depression’ and self-esteem. Personality and Individual Dfferences, 12, 61-68.
Flett, 0. L., Hewitt, P. L., & McGregor-Temple, T. (1990). Motivational orientations and dimensions of perfectionism. Manuscript D. E. (1978). Psychodynamics of normal and neurotic perfectionism. Psycholo’,, 15,
27-33.
Flett, 0. L., Hewitt, P. L. & Dyck, D. G. (1989). Self-oriented neuroticism and anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences. 10, 731-735.
Frost, R. 0., Steketee, G., Cohn, L. and Griess, K. (1994). Personality traits in subclinical and non-obsessive- compulsive volunteers and their parents. Behavior, Research and Therapy, 32(1), 47-56.
Frost, R. 0., & Gross, R. C. (1993). The hoarding of possession. Behavior, Research and Therapy, 31(4), 367-381.
Gupta, M. A., Shork, N. J. and Elis, C. N. (1994). Psychological correlates of treatment of photodamaged skin with topical retionic Acid: A prospective controlled study. Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, 30(6)
969-972.
Hamachek, D. E. (1978). Psychodynamics of normal and neurotic Perfectionism. Psychology, 15, 27-33.
Hewitt, P. L., & Flett, G. L. (1990 1). Personality, hassles, and depression:
Dimensions of perfectionism in a psychiatric sample. Manuseript submitted for publication.
Hewitt, P. L., & Flett, 0. L. (1991). Dimensions of perfectionism in unipolar depolar depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100, 98-101.
Hewitt, P. L., S Flett, 0. L. (1991). Perfectionism in the seli and social contexts: Conceptualization, assessment and association with psychopathology. Journal of personality and social psychology, 60, 456-470.
Hewitt, P. L., & Genest, M. (1990). The ideal self: Schematic processing of perfectionistic content indysphoric university students: Journal of personality and social psychology, 59, 802-808.
Hollender, M. H. (1965). Perfectionism, comprehensive Psychiatry, 6, 94-103. Homey, K. (1950). Neurosis and Human Growth. New York: Norton.
Jones, R.G. (1968). A factorial measure of Ellis’ irrational belief system, with personality and maladjustment correlates. Dissertation Abstracts International, 29, 4379B-4380B. (University Microfilms No. 69-6443).
Missildine, W. H. (1963). Your Inner Child of the Past. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Pacht, A. R. (1984). Reflections on perfection. Americam Psychologist, 39,
Saddler, C. D. and Sacks, L.A. (1994). The multidimensional Perfectionism and academic peocvastination: Relationship with depression in university students, Psychological Report, 73(3), 863-871.
Weisinger, H., & Lobsenz, N. (1981). Nobody’s Perfect. New York: Warner Books.
)