Perfectionism and emotional reactions to perfect and flawed achievements: Satisfaction and pride only when perfect

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 246-251

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Yang, Hongfei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dissatisfaction; Embarrassment; Failure; Perfectionism; Pride; Satisfaction; Self conscious affect; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952887102     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.044     Document Type: Article

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