Is the relationship between self-esteem and physical aggression necessarily U-shaped?

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 977-982

  Webster, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Aggression Questionnaire; Curvilinear; Gender; Nonlinear; Quadratic; Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale; Self esteem; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248561810     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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