Predicting eating problems among Malaysian Chinese: Differential roles of positive and negative perfectionism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 744-749

  Choo, Ser Yin ^a   Chan, Carina K Y ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chinese; Cross cultural; Eating disorder; Perfectionism; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873523517     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.036     Document Type: Article

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