"If I can't have you, no one can": Development of a Relational Entitlement and Proprietariness Scale (REPS)

Violence and Victims

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 539-560

  Hannawa, Annegret F ^a   Spitzberg, Brian H ^a   Wiering, Liesbeth ^a   Teranishi, Christy ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Domestic violence; Jealousy; Possessiveness; Proprietary beliefs; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JEALOUSY; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; RATING SCALE; RELATIONAL ENTITLEMENT AND PROPRIETARINESS SCALE; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33748934258     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.21.5.539     Document Type: Article

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