Processes underlying gender-role flexibility: Do androgynous individuals know more or know how to cope?

Journal of Personality

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 645-674

  Cheng, Cecilia ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 18844364771     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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