Cognitive errors as predictors of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism in children

Cognitive distortions such as dichotomous evaluation of performance, selectively focusing on perceived failures, and discounting successes are proposed to be key maintaining mechanisms in clinical perfectionism, but no existing research has investigated the relationship between perfectionism and cog...

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Main Authors: Davis, Melissa, Wosinski, Nicole
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer New York LLC 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36956