Keeping Up with the Joneses: Friends’ Perfectionism and Students’ Orientation Toward Extrinsic Aspirations

Journal of Personality

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 702-715

  Hope, Nora ^a   Koestner, Richard ^a   Holding, Anne ^a   Harvey, Brenda ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERFECTIONISM; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MALE; PERFECTIONISM; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938897675     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12193     Document Type: Article

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