The Italian version of Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale: Psychometric proprieties and its associations with pathological narcissism and adult attachment in an adult non clinical sample

Personality and Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 130-141

  Borroni, Serena ^a   Bortolla, Roberta ^a   Lombardi, Lucrezia M G ^a   Somma, Antonella ^b   Maffei, Cesare ^a   Fossati, Andrea ^b  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; NARCISSISM; OBJECT RELATION; PERFECTIONISM; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; NARCISSISM; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERFECTIONISM; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84975721609     PISSN: 19328621     EISSN: 1932863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmh.1328     Document Type: Article

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