Multidimensional Romantic Perfectionism Questionnaire, MRPQ

Test scores

Section I comprise 5 subscales related to the construct of romantic perfectionism (cf. Hewitt, Flett et al., 1991):

• self-oriented romantic perfectionism, which involves extremely high self-standards for oneself as a romantic partner and an excessive motivation to be a perfect romantic partner;

• societal prescribed romantic perfectionism, which involves a belief that society in general expects one to be a perfect romantic partner;

• partner's self-oriented romantic perfectionism, which involves a person's belief that her/his partner sets extremely and excessively high self-standards for herself/himself as a romantic partner;

• partner's prescribed romantic perfectionism toward the respondent, which involves a belief that the respondent's partner expects the respondent to be a perfect romantic partner;

• partner prescribed romantic perfectionism, which involves the respondent's unrealistic and perfectionistic romantic expectations for her/his partner.

Section II comprise 6 additional subscales related to the construct of romantic perfectionism (cf. Frost, Marten et al., 1990):

• concern over romantic mistakes, defined as being overly self critical about one's romantic abilities;

• doubts about one's romantic capacity, defined as a general dissatisfaction with or uncertainty about the quality of one's romantic behaviors and abilities;

• personal romantic standards, defined as the setting of excessively high standards of romantic conduct;

• romantic expectations, defined as the tendency to have perfectionistic personal expectations about one's own romantic behavior;

• partner's romantic criticism, defined as critical evaluations and expectations about one's romantic behaviors and abilities from one's partner;

• romantic organization, defined as a person's tendency to emphasize orderliness and precision in the day to day activities of a romantic relationship.

For all subscales, higher scores correspond to greater amounts of each respective perfectionistic romantic tendency.