The Big Three Perfectionism Scale: Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance in a Turkish Sample

Abstract

Perfectionism is a crucial concept in psychology as perfectionism has been found to be related to many important factors affecting daily and academic life. Many researchers have tried to measure perfectionism since 1980. Following an extensive literature review, Smith, Saklofske, Stoeber, and Sherry developed a new perfectionism scale called Big Three Perfectionism Scale (BTPS). The present study addressed the validation study of the BTPS in Turkish sample. The factor structure of the BTPS and measurement invariance across gender groups was tested with the Turkish sample. The BTPS was administered to 609 undergraduate students studying in different departments. Reliability analyses showed that the Turkish version of the scale had an excellent internal consistency. Data from Turkey demonstrated acceptable fit to the three-factor, 10-facet structure of BTPS. The results also indicated that there was no significant difference between fit indexes of configural, metric, and scalar invariance across gender.

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“…As seen from Figure 2, the BTPS measures perfectionism with three second-order factors and ten first-order facets. The original BTPS was adapted to Turkish by Kilmen and Arikan (2020). The factor structure of the BTPS was confirmed in the Turkish undergraduate student sample.…”

“…Although the results of Kilmen and Arikan’s study do not permit evaluating the BTPS’s cultural measurement invariance—because the data only contain the Turkish undergraduate student sample—they provide preliminary evidence, revealing that the BTPS facets have the same conceptual meaning in the Turkish sample. The results of Kilmen and Arikan (2020) showed that the BTPS can be used reliably to measure perfectionism in the Turkish sample. More details about facets were given in the introduction section (see Table 1).…”

“…Rigid perfectionism is the second global factor; it has two facets: self-oriented perfectionism and self-worth contingencies. Narcissistic perfectionism is the last global factor and consists of four facets: other-oriented perfectionism, hypercriticism, entitlement, and grandiosity (Kilmen & Arikan, 2020; Smith et al, 2016). Table 1 presents the definitions of these ten facets.…”

Perfectionism and L2 Achievement: The Mediating Roles of Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning Among Iranian High School Students

“…It is always advisable to investigate the psychometric properties of an instrument that has been translated into another language. In this instance, existing psychometric evidence attests generally to the sound psychometric properties of the original BTPS (e.g., Kilmen & Arikan, 2020) and the short form of the BTPS (Feher et al, 2020) and this includes research with older participants from Iran who completed the BTPS (see Besharat & Atari, 2017). However, the psychometric properties of the BTPS have not been evaluated in a sample of high school students from Iran.…”