Agentic and communal personality traits: Relations to attitudes toward sex and sexual experiences

Sex Roles

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 121-129

  Mosher, Catherine E ^a   Danoff Burg, Sharon ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Personality; Sexual relationships; Unmitigated agency; Unmitigated communion

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244391469     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-005-1199-2     Document Type: Article

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