The Dynamic Self: How the Content and Structure of the Self-Concept Change with Mood

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 478-493

  Showers, Carolin J ^a,b   Abramson, Lyn Y ^a   Hogan, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032134321     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.2.478     Document Type: Article

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