Exploring individual differences in reactions to mortality salience: Does attachment style regulate terror management mechanisms?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 260-273

  Mikulincer, Mario ^a   Florian, Victor ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; LOVE; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPERAMENT; TERRORISM;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; LOVE; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; REPRESSION; TEMPERAMENT; TERRORISM; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 0034243221     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.79.2.260     Document Type: Article

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