Why are they lonely? Perceived quality of early relationships with parents, attachment, personality predispositions and loneliness in first-year university students

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-248

  Wiseman, Hadas ^a   Mayseless, Ofra ^a   Sharabany, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attachment; DEQ; Loneliness; Relationships with parents; Self criticism; Transition to college

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344472149     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.05.015     Document Type: Article

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