Organization and predictive power of general and relationship-specific attachment models: One for all, and all for one?

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1665-1682

  Klohnen, Eva C ^a,b   Weller, Joshua A ^a   Luo, Shanhong ^a   Choe, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adulthood; Attachment; Egoresiliency; Measurement; Relationship satisfaction; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBJECT RELATION; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28244452654     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205278307     Document Type: Article

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