The intergenerational transmission of perfectionism: Fathers' other-oriented perfectionism and daughters' perceived psychological control uniquely predict daughters' self-critical and personal standards perfectionism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 119, Issue , 2017, Pages 242-248

  Smith, Martin M ^a   Sherry, Simon B ^b,c   Gautreau, Chantal M ^d   Mushquash, Aislin R ^e   Saklofske, Donald H ^a   Snow, Stephanie L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Daughters; Fathers; Parenting; Perfectionism; Personal standards; Psychological control; Self criticism

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERFECTIONISM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 85026411044     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.07.030     Document Type: Article

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