Relational selves as self-affirmational resources

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 716-733

  Chen, Serena ^a   Boucher, Helen C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense; Relational self; Self affirmation; Self concept; Self definition

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249116354     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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