When "New" Meets "Old": Configurations of Adult Attachment Representations and Their Implications for Marital Functioning

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 295-314

  Treboux, Dominique ^a   Crowell, Judith A ^a   Waters, Everett ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARRIAGE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 1442354199     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.2.295     Document Type: Article

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