Feelings of subjective emotional loneliness: An exploration of attachment

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 797-812

  Bogaerts, Stefan ^a,e   Vanheule, Stijn ^b   Desmet, Mattias ^b   Ditommaso, Enrico ^c   Poiesz, Theo ^a   Verhaeghe, Paul ^b   Jacobsen, Teresa ^d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e WODC   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Parental attachment; Parental bonding; Structural Equation Modeling; Subjective emotional loneliness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747136975     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.7.797     Document Type: Article

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