ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Creating and Confirming a Measure of Maladaptive Perfectionism

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Personality/Emotion Psychology

  • Reed Priest
    MTSU
  • Michael Hein
    Middle Tennessee State University

Abstract

Maladaptive perfectionism (MP) is an unhealthy desire to reach exceptionally high performance expectations. The leading measure of MP is proprietary (Hewitt & Flett, 1991;2004), so we created a new measure of MP that is reliable, valid, and openly accessible.

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