Repression, self-concealment and rationality/emotional defensiveness: The correspondence between three questionnaire measures of defensive coping

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-102

  Ritz, Thomas ^a   Dahme, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0029688083     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(95)00142-S     Document Type: Article

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