Perfectionism and loneliness as predictors of depressive and anxious symptoms in Asian and European Americans: Do self-construal schemas also matter?

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1179-1188

  Chang, Edward C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Ethnicity; Loneliness; Perfectionism; Self construal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERFECTIONISM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF CONSTRUAL; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892613804     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: 15732819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-013-9549-9     Document Type: Article

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