Construct and Validation of the Perception of Parental Perfectionism Scale

The purpose of this study was to construct and scrutiny Psychometric characteristics and Factor Structure of the Perception of Parental Perfectionism Scale . After Preparing the Original version (Father form and mother form) 315 students participated in the study who were studying in the girls’ high school in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades in 27 schools of Birjand in the academic year of 1400-99. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used In order to analys the structural validity of the Perception of Parental Perfectionism questionnaire.The results of analysing the main components with rotation Equamax showed that perception of Parental Perfectionism consisted of four sub scale of high expectations of parents, high standards of parents, internalization and conditional acceptance. the results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the structure of four factors of scale had good fit with data in addition to factor analysis, the correlation this questionnaire with the academic Procrastination questionnaire of solomon and Rothblum (1984) and the distinction between two groups of neglected students was used as evidence of structural validity of a questionnaire, which was statistically meaningful. internal consistency of the components of the perception of parental Perfectionism questionnaire using cronbach's alpha method was fit . overall, the findings indicated that the present scale is a tool that has the appropriate reliability (stability, internal consistency) to measure the perception of Parental Perfectionism and it can be used by researchers and consultants.