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Flett, Gordon L.; Hewitt, Paul L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
Recent findings suggest that perfectionism is highly prevalent among children and adolescents, and perfectionism can be quite destructive in terms of its links with anxiety, depression, and suicide. In this article, we provide an overview of recent research illustrating the costs and consequences of perfectionism among children and adolescents. We…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Children, Adolescents
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Mantzicopoulos, Panayota – Psychology in the Schools, 1997
Examined coping strategies employed by 187 fourth and fifth graders who encountered academic failure. Results indicate that positive copers were more likely to have an intrinsic orientation to success, to experience less negative emotions following failure, to attribute failure to unstable rather than stable factors, and to have higher perceptions…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Coping, Intermediate Grades, Psychological Patterns