Associations among relational maintenance behaviors, attachment-style categories, and attachment dimensions

Communication Studies

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 341-361

  Guerrero, Laura K ^a   Bachman, Guy F ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attachment; Avoidance; Maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849110395     PISSN: 10510974     EISSN: 17451035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10510970600845982     Document Type: Article

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