Missing home: Sociotropy and autonomy and their relationship to psychological distress and homesickness in college freshmen

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-166

  Beck, Richard ^a   Taylor, Cathy ^a   Robbins, Marla ^a  

^a ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Depression; Homesickness; Personality; Sociotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038578011     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2003.10382970     Document Type: Article

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