The relationship between psychology students' levels of perfectionism and achievement in a graduate-level research methodology course

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1396-1405

  Witcher, Lisa A ^a   Alexander, Elizabeth S ^b   Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J ^c   Collins, Kathleen M T ^d   Witcher, Ann E ^e  

^a Norton Orthopedic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement; Graduate students; Perfectionism; Research methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547160210     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.04.016     Document Type: Article

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