The scale prepared by Hewitt and Flett (1991) to measure the perfectionist personality traits of adults consists of fifteen items each.
- "self-oriented perfectionism",
- "otheroriented perfectionism"
- "socially prescribed perfectionism"
The questionnaire consists of three subscales. The items are scored on a seven-point Likert-type scale (1=strongly agree, 7=strongly disagree).
Theself-oriented perfectionism subscale measures high standards for oneself and critical evaluation of one's own behavior. The scores that can be obtained from this scale vary between 19 and 133.
Theother-oriented perfectionism subscale measures beliefs and expectations about the abilities of others. Scores that can be obtained from this scale range between 10 and 70.
Thesocially imposed perfectionism subscale measures the high standards that the person believes are set by people who are meaningful to him/her. Scores that can be obtained from this scale range between 15 and 105.
Low scores obtained from these subscales indicate a low level of perfectionism and high scores indicate a high level of perfectionism.
The total score that can be obtained from the scale varies between 44 and 308 and a high score indicates perfectionist personality trait (Oral, 1999).
The scale was translated into Turkish by Oral (1999) and validity and reliability studies were conducted on university students.
The items constituting the subscales in the Turkish version of the scale differ. While there were 15 items in each subscale in the original scale, in the analyses conducted by Oral (1999), there were 19 items in the Self-Oriented Perfectionism subscale; 10 items in the Other-Oriented Perfectionism subscale and 15 items in the Social-Oriented Perfectionism subscale.