Development of Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognition Inventory

The Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory–English (MPCI–E): Reliability, Validity, and Relationships With Positive and Negative Affect

“…Moreover, as was expected, all three factors showed substantial intercorrelations. In line with the findings on the MPCI (Kobori, 2006;Kobori & Tanno, 2004), the factor representing pursuit of perfection showed high correlations with the factor representing personal standards and the factor representing concern over mistakes, whereas the latter two factors showed a more modest correlation.…”

“…Across both studies, Personal Standards showed a positive correlation with positive affect whereas Concern over Mistakes showed a positive correlation with negative affect and a negative correlation with positive affect. Dovetailing the findings of the first study (Kobori, 2006;Kobori & Tanno, 2004), these findings indicate that the Personal Standards scale captures perfectionism cognitions that have a more positive connotation whereas the Concerns over Mistakes scale captures perfectionism cognitions that clearly have negative connotations. Taken together, the findings suggest that the MPCI may be a useful addition to the assessment of perfectionism by providing scales that separate positive and negative cognitions in perfectionism.…”

“…Thus, as was intended when constructing the MPCI (Kobori, 2006;Kobori & Tanno, 2004), cognitions relating to perfectionistic personal standards were associated with positive thoughts and cognitions relating to perfectionistic concern over mistakes were associated with negative thoughts.…”

“…Based on the findings with the original MPCI (Kobori, 2006;Kobori & Tanno, 2004), we tested for a threefactor first-order confirmatory model (consecutively termed three-factor oblique model), that is, a model with three correlated factors in which the five items from each scale were specified to load only on their target factor and all target factors were allowed to correlate (see Table 1). This model was then compared to the null model (no factors, all items uncorrelated) and to the onefactor model (all items forced to load on one factor).…”

Perfectionism and Performance

“…Measures of perfectionism in sport include the Sport Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Sport-MPS; Dunn, Causgrove Dunn, & Syrotuik, 2002;revised version: Gotwals & Dunn, 2009) and the Multidimensional Inventory of Perfectionism in Sports (MIPS; Stöber, Otto, & Stoll, 2004;English version: Stoeber, Otto, & Stoll, 2006). Finally, there is the Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (MPCI; Kobori & Tanno, 2004;English version: Stoeber, Kobori, & Tanno, 2010) which measures individual differences in cognitions associated with multidimensional perfectionism that are more fleeting than those captured by the other measures which largely capture stable individual differences.…”