Perfectionism and the Big Five: Conscientiousness predicts longitudinal increases in self-oriented perfectionism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 363-368

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Otto, Kathleen ^b   Dalbert, Claudia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Big Five; Perfectionism; Personality development

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349214432     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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