Adult attachment style. I: Its relationship to clinical depression

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 50-59

  Bifulco, A ^a   Moran, P M ^a   Ball, C ^a   Bernazzani, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment style; Depression; Interview; Measurement; Support

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANGER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ALIENATION;

EID: 0036935329     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s127-002-8215-0     Document Type: Article

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