Attachment to groups: Theory and measurement

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-110

  Smith, Eliot R ^a   Murphy, Julie ^b   Coats, Susan ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PEER GROUP; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PEER GROUP; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 0033160287     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.1.94     Document Type: Article

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