So perfect it's positively harmful?: Reflections on the adaptiveness and maladaptiveness of positive and negative perfectionism

Behavior Modification

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 928-937

  Glynn Owens, R ^a,c   Slade, Peter D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale; Negative perfectionism; Positive perfectionism; Reinforcement; Self oriented perfectionism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONTROL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CONFORMITY;

EID: 53149152959     PISSN: 01454455     EISSN: 15524167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145445508319667     Document Type: Article

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