The role of personality and blame attribution in prisoners' experiences of anger

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1453-1465

  Wood, Jane ^a   Newton, Anna Kristín ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b The Prison/Probation Administration   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Anger; Blame attribution; Personality; Prisoners; Treatment programmes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038406230     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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