Attachment and trait forgivingness: The mediating role of angry rumination

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1585-1596

  Burnette, Jeni L ^a   Taylor, Kelli W ^b   Worthington, Everett L ^b   Forsyth, Donelson R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Forgiveness; Forgivingness; Rumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947317416     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.033     Document Type: Article

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