Assessment of romantic perfectionism: Psychometric properties of the romantic relationship perfectionism scale

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-132

  Matte, Melody ^a   Lafontaine, Marie France ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

factor structure; reliability; romantic perfectionism; test validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864463148     PISSN: 07481756     EISSN: 19476302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748175611429303     Document Type: Article

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