Is perfectionism good, bad, or both? Examining models of the perfectionism construct

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1373-1385

  Bieling, Peter J ^a   Israeli, Anne L ^b   Antony, Martin M ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive perfectionism; Maladaptive perfectionism; Perfectionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542288431     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00235-6     Document Type: Article

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