Avoidant coping: A mediator of maladaptive perfectionism and test anxiety

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 632-636

  Weiner, Brittany A ^a   Carton, John S ^a  

^a OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active coping; Adaptive perfectionism; Avoidant coping; Maladaptive perfectionism; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856613304     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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