The impact of sexual victimization on personality: A longitudinal study of gendered attributes

Sex Roles

Volumn 56, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 403-414

  McMullin, Darcy ^a   Wirth, R J ^b   White, Jacquelyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

EPAQ; Gendered attributes; Latent growth modeling; Personality traits; Sexual victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147099568     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9179-8     Document Type: Article

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