It depends: Perfectionism as a moderator of experimentally induced stress

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-35

  Zureck, Elisabeth ^a   Altstötter Gleich, Christine ^a   Wolf, Oliver T ^b   Brand, Matthias ^c  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Cortisol; Diathesis stress; Perfectionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894053809     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.038     Document Type: Article

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