Perfectionism and negative affect after repeated failure

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 87-94

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Schneider, Natalia ^b   Hussain, Rimi ^a   Matthews, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b France   (Germany)

Author keywords

anger; anxiety; depression; negative affect; perfectionism; repeated failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902180751     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000130     Document Type: Article

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