Self-monitoring and close relationships

Journal of Personality

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 739-778

  Leone, Christopher ^a   Hawkins, Louanne B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LOVE; MARRIAGE; OBJECT RELATION; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MARRIAGE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646553353     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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