Distinctions among agency, communion, and unmitigated agency and communion according to the interpersonal circumplex, five-factor model, and social-emotional correlates

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-88

  Ghaed, Shiva G ^a   Gallo, Linda C ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIENCE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 32444439240     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8601_09     Document Type: Article

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