Predicting the students’ perfectionism from their parents’ perfectionism

AbstractThe aim of this study is to predict the perfectionism level of secondary school students from their parents’ perfectionism. This study was performed with 408 parents and 591 students. FMPS, adapted to Turkish by Özbay and Mısırlı-Taşdemir, was used. According to the analyses; it was seen that there is a meaningful effect while predicting the scores of female students in Organization, Doubts About Actions, Parental Expectations and Parental Criticisms subscales of FMPS; scores of parents and mothers on its own. It was seen that there is a meaningful effect while predicting the male students’ scores only in Parental Expectation subscale; scores of parents and mothers on its own