There are varieties of definitions of perfectionism owing to diverse conceptualizations as understood by different researchers based on culture. Perfectionism can be defined as striving for or the tendency to maintain or to reach unreasonably high standards. Perfection is an emerging construct in India. Confining to the various definitions of perfectionism, the present study endeavours to evolve a perfectionism scale for youth in the Indian context since India has a culture very different from the countries where existing scales were developed. Based on Hewitt & Fletts’s perfectionism model and expert reviews, various attributes of perfectionism scale were initiated with a pool of 129 items. These items were subjected to subject matter experts’ opinion and reduced to 93. The scale was administered on a sample of 531 participants and the item analysis was carried out and the items having a value of 0.40 and above were retained for factor analysis. After initial factor analyses the scale was again administered on a sample of 281 participants. The principal component analyses were employed and 41 items were retained covering three factors i.e. Self Oriented Perfectionism, Socially Prescribed Perfectionism and Others Oriented Perfectionism. The measure demonstrated high internal consistency; the reliability was 0.896 and validity was 0.486.
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