FROST MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERFECTIONISM SCALE
Listed below are a number of statements concerning personal characteristics and traits. Read each item and decide
whether you agree or disagree and to what extent. If you strongly agree, circle 5; if you strongly disagree, circle 1; ifyou feel somewhere in between, circle any one of the numbers between 1 and 5. If you neither agree nor disagree, themidpoint is 3.
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Strongly Neither agree Strongly
disagree nor disagree agree
1.My parents set very high standards for me 1 2 3 4 5
2.Organization is very important to me 1 2 3 4 5
3.As a child I was punished for doing things less
than perfect12345
4.If I do not set very high standards for myself, I am
likely to end up a second rate person12345
5.My parents never tried to understand my mistakes 1 2 3 4 5
6.It is important to me that I am thoroughly
competent in everything I do12345
7.I am a neat person 1 2 3 4 5
8.I try to be an organized person 1 2 3 4 5
9.If I fail at work or school, I am a failure as a person 1 2 3 4 5
10.I should be upset if I make a mistake 1 2 3 4 5
11.My parents wanted me to be the best at everything 1 2 3 4 5
12.I set higher goals than most people 1 2 3 4 5
13.If someone does a task at work or at school better
than I, then I feel like I failed the whole task12345
14.If I fail partly, it’s as bad as being a complete
failure12345
15.Only outstanding performance is good enough in
my family12345
16.I am very good at focusing my efforts on attaining
a goal12345
17.Even when I do something very carefully, I often
feel that it is not quite right12345
18.I hate being less than the best at things 1 2 3 4 5
19.I have extremely high goals 1 2 3 4 5
20.My parents have expected excellence from me 1 2 3 4 5
21.People will probably think less of me if I make a
mistake12345
22.I never felt like I could meet my parents’
expectations12345
23.If I do not do as well as other people, it means I
am an inferior human being12345
24.Other people seem to accept lower standards from
themselves than I do12345
25.If I do not do well all the time, people will not
respect me12345
26.My parents have always had higher expectations
for my future than I have12345
27.I try to be a neat person 1 2 3 4 5
28.I usually have doubts about the simple everyday
things I do12345
29.Neatness is very important to me 1 2 3 4 5600 21. MEASURES OF PERFECTIONISM
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