The relationship between maladaptive perfectionism with burnout: Testing mediating effect of emotion-focused coping

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 635-639

  Chang, Yuhsuan ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Burnout; Emotion focused coping; Maladaptive perfectionism; Nurses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863785055     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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