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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ward, Andrew M.; Ashby, Jeffrey S. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2008
This study examined multidimensional perfectionism and self-development. Two hundred seventy-one undergraduates completed a measure of multidimensional perfectionism and two Kohutian measures designed to measure aspects of self-development including social connectedness, social assurance, goal instability (idealization), and grandiosity. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Concept, Personality Traits, Individual Development
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Dickinson, Wendy L.; Ashby, Jeffrey S. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2005
This study examined the relationship between multidimensional perfectionism and ego defense style among 130 college students. Cluster analysis results facilitated the identification of groups of adaptive perfectionists, maladaptive perfectionists, and non-perfectionists. The researchers found that identified maladaptive perfectionists used…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Personality Traits, Multivariate Analysis, Undergraduate Students
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Martin, James L.; Ashby, Jeffrey S. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2004
This research examined the relationship between types of perfectionists and differences in post-adolescent intellectual development. University students completed the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (Slaney, Rice, Mobley, Trippi, & Ashby, 2001) and the Scale of Adult Intellectual Development (Newman & Martin, 1999). The results revealed significant…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Epistemology, Intellectual Development, College Students