Adult Attachment Style and Affect Regulation: Strategic Variations in Subjective Self-Other Similarity

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 436-448

  Mikulincer, Mario ^a   Orbach, Israel ^a   Iavnieli, Daria ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0032135079     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.2.436     Document Type: Article

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