Personality reflected in a coherent idiosyncratic interplay of intra- and interpersonal self-regulatory processes

Journal of Personality

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1527-1556

  Morf, Carolyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; NARCISSISM; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CONTROL; TEMPERAMENT;

HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARCISSISM; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 33750728359     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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