How children's cognitive and affective responses to a novel task relate to the dimensions of perfectionism

Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 62-76

  DiBartolo, Patricia Marten ^a   Varner, Sara Pierotti ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Children; Cognition; Depression; Perfectionism; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860662944     PISSN: 08949085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10942-011-0130-8     Document Type: Article

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