Table 4. Standardized Factor Loadings for Each Item Using the Best Fitting A Priori-Model in the Current Study, i.e., Stoeber and Damian (2014), Without Reversed Items (n = 223).
| Items | Skewness | Factor 1: Perfectionistic Strivings |
Factor 2: Perfectionistic Concerns |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Have you pushed yourself really hard to meet your goals? | -0.67 | .57* | |
| 3. Have you been told that your standards are too high? | -1.27 | .55* | |
| 4. Have you felt a failure as a person because you have not succeeded in meeting your goals? | -1.30 | .64* | |
| 5. Have you been afraid that you might not reach your standards? | -1.05 | .07 | .54* |
| 6. Have you raised your standards because you thought they were too easy? | 0.04 | .36* | |
| 7. Have you judged yourself on the basis of your ability to achieve high standards? | -0.98 | .11* | .53* |
| 9. Have you repeatedly checked how well you are doing at meeting your standards (for example, by comparing your performance with that of others)? | -0.72 | .16 | .45* |
| 10. Do you think that other people would have thought of you as a ”perfectionist”? | -0.42 | .35* | |
| 11. Have you kept trying to meet your standards, even if this has meant that you have missed out on things? | -0.57 | .63* | |
| 12. Have you avoided any tests of your performance (at meeting your goals) in case you failed? | -0.86 | .49* |
*p < .05.