Facets of self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism and feelings of pride, shame, and guilt following success and failure

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1506-1516

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Kempe, Tom ^a   Keogh, Ellen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649084278     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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