War exposure, attachment style, and moral reasoning

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 381-401

  Haskuka, Mytaher ^a   Sunar, Diane ^b   Alp, I Ercan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA   (Serbia)

^b ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attachment style; Collectivism; Individualism; Moral reasoning; War exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949147873     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022108318113     Document Type: Article

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