Abstract

ARAUJO, Ana Luíza de Carvalho; MARTINS, Pedro S. R.; ALVARENGA, Marco Antônio Silva  and  MANSUR-ALVES, Marcela. Adaptation and validity evidence of the Child-Adolescent Perfectionism Scale to Brazilian Portuguese. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2023, vol.25, n.3, ePTPPA15444.  Epub Mar 10, 2025. ISSN 1516-3687.  https://doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/eptppa15444.en.

This study presents the Brazilian version of the Child-Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS), one of the most widely used instruments for assessing perfectionism in young people. The objective of this study was to present the adaptation and evidence of validity for the CAPS in Brazilian Portuguese. The study was conducted on 599 adolescents (Mean age = 15.46 SD = 1.15), 66% girls. We investigated CAPS’s internal structure, measurement properties according to age and sex, and its relationship with other questionnaires. We found a good fit for a two-factor structure for the CAPS controlling for an acquiescent responding style. We found evidence of invariance across participants’ sex and lack of bias (using a MIMIC approach) due to participant age. The CAPS scores were associated with personality traits and a measure of mental health. The CAPS can be used as a questionnaire to assess perfectionism in Brazilian adolescents.

Keywords : perfectionism; adolescent; mental health; personality; factor analysis.

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