Self-Pity: Exploring the Links to Personality, Control Beliefs, and Anger

Journal of Personality

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-220

  Stöber, Joachim ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE EVENT; LONELINESS; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS;

EID: 0037485925     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.7102004     Document Type: Article

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