Changes in ego development in the wake of September 11

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 197-202

  Lanning, Kevin ^a   Colucci, Joseph ^a   Edwards, John A ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Changes in variability; Differentiation; Ego development; Regression; Sentence Completion Test; September 11

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846798032     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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