Insecure attachment predicts proneness to paranoia but not hallucinations

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1212-1224

  Pickering, Laura ^a   Simpson, Jane ^a   Bentall, Richard P ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment; Hallucinations; Paranoia; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149141853     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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