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Peer reviewedParker, Wayne D. – American Educational Research Journal, 1997
A national sample of 820 academically talented children took the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Cluster analyses of scores found a three-cluster solution. Further analyses indicated that these clusters were: nonperfectionistic (32.%), healthy perfectionistic (41.7%), and dysfunctional perfectionistic (25.5%). The construct of perfectionism…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Classification, Cluster Analysis
