Compartmentalization and integration: The evaluative organization of contextualized selves

Journal of Personality

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1181-1204

  Showers, Carolin J ^a   Zeigler Hill, Virgil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; EGO; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY; SELF CONCEPT;

AFFECT; EGO; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 36148929892     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00472.x     Document Type: Article

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