Examining cognitive performance: Do perfectionism and rumination matter?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 94-98

  Desnoyers, Amanda ^a   Arpin Cribbie, Chantal ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Perfectionism; Rumination; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919343308     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.11.050     Document Type: Article

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