A mediational model of perfectionistic automatic thoughts and psychosomatic symptoms: The roles of negative affect and daily hassles

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 565-570

  Flett, Gordon L ^a   Molnar, Danielle S ^a   Nepon, Taryn ^a   Hewitt, Paul L ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect; Automatic thoughts; Cognition; Conscientiousness; Emotion; Health; Neuroticism; Perfectionism; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856595457     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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