Relation of Shame and Guilt to Constructive Versus Destructive Responses to Anger Across the Lifespan

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 797-809

  Tangney, June Price ^a   Wagner, Patricia E ^a,b   Hill Barlow, Deborah ^a   Marschall, Donna E ^a   Gramzow, Richard ^a,c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hutchings Psychiatric Center   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGING; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHAME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGING; ANGER; CHILD; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHAME;

EID: 0030117434     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.4.797     Document Type: Article

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