Designing A Shorter Form of the Big Three Perfectionism Scale: An Application of Ant Colony Optimization

The present study has two main purposes. The first is to create a short form of the BTPS and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the short form. The second is to evaluate the performance of the ant colony optimization procedure and discuss the applicability of the ant colony optimization procedure in creating a short form. Results revealed that the 30-item short form of the BTPS can be applied to psychological or educational assessment settings to obtain valid and reliable results related to ten different facets of perfectionism. The current study also showed that the ant colony optimization procedure can be used to create the best short form which has variance, reliability, and high factor correlations between original and short versions of a scale.