Perfectionism and the experience of pride, shame, and guilt: Comparing healthy perfectionists, unhealthy perfectionists, and non-perfectionists

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 131-141

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Harris, Rachel A ^a   Moon, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure; Gender; Guilt; Perfectionism; Pride; Self conscious affect; Shame; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947576224     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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