Stability and fluctuation in adult attachment style over a 6-year period

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 419-437

  Zhang, Fang ^a,b   Labouvie Vief, Gisela ^b  

^a ASSUMPTION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEPRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12344279875     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461673042000303127     Document Type: Article

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