The family almost perfect scale: Development, psychometric properties, and comparing Asian and European Americans

Asian American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 186-199

  Wang, Kenneth T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian American; collectivism; family; perfectionism; scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251637605     PISSN: 19481985     EISSN: 19481993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020732     Document Type: Article

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