Perfectionism in Chinese elementary school students: Validation of the Chinese adaptive/maladaptive perfectionism scale

Talent Development and Excellence

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-213

  Fong, Ricci W ^a   Yuen, Mantak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Children; Chinese; Perfectionism; The Adaptive Maladaptive Perfectionism Scale; The gifted and talented

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865712187     PISSN: 18690459     EISSN: 18692885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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