Perfectionism and task performance: Time on task mediates the perfectionistic strivings-performance relationship

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 458-462

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Chesterman, Daryl ^a   Tarn, Terri Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Achievement; Effort; Errors; Perfectionism; Performance; Speed; Time on task

Indexed keywords

EID: 73749083302     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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