Shaping self-concept: The elusive importance effect

Journal of Personality

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 377-402

  Hardy, Lew ^a   Moriarty, Tom ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33644897062     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00379.x     Document Type: Review

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