The perceived directionality of the link between approval and self-worth: The liabilities of a looking glass self-orientation among young adolescents

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 285-308

  Harter, Susan ^a   Stocker, Clare ^a   Robinson, Nancy S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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