An evaluation of the factor structure of the frost multidimensional perfectionism scale

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1007-1018

  Harvey, Bronwyn ^a   Pallant, Julie ^b   Harvey, David ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale; Parallel analysis; Perfectionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044277075     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164404264842     Document Type: Article

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