Attachment styles, social skills and loneliness in young adults

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-312

  DiTommaso, Enrico ^a   Brannen McNulty, Cyndi ^a   Ross, Lynda ^b   Burgess, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attachment; Loneliness; Social skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141918749     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00190-3     Document Type: Article

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