1. Preliminary Investigation of the Reliability and Validity of the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire in a Clinical Sample.
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Hoiles, Kimberley J., Kane, Robert T., Watson, Hunna J., Rees, Clare S., and Egan, Sarah J.
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STATISTICAL reliability ,PERFECTIONISM (Personality trait) ,PATHOLOGICAL psychology ,PERSONAL criticism ,PSYCHOMETRICS - Abstract
Perfectionism is a risk and maintaining factor across psychopathology and has been proposed to be a transdiagnostic process. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire (CPQ) in 32 adults (75% female, M age = 35.54 years, SD = 9.71) with a range of psychological disorders, presenting for treatment of clinical perfectionism. There was evidence that the CPQ was correlated with established measures of perfectionism and theoretically related constructs including self-criticism and dichotomous thinking. The CPQ was also able to predict treatment outcome. The internal consistency was not adequate in the current study; however, the sample size was small. Future studies should examine the psychometric properties of the CPQ in a larger sample of individuals with a range of psychological disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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