Predicting the Turkish secondary school students’ perfectionism from their parents’ perfectionism*

The aim of this study is to predict Turkish secondary school students’ perfectionism from their parents’ perfectionism. In this scope the study was performed with 408 parents (209 mother, 199 father) and 591 (439 female, 152 male) students. FMPS, adapted into Turkish by zbay and M s rl -Ta demir, was used. Multiple Regression Analysis was utilized in data analyzing. According to the analyses; it can be 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 can be 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. These results show that parents’ perfectionism can affect their children’s perfectionism. It can be shared with families in educational seminars. By this way, parents can realize that these characteristics of them reflect over their children.