Gender social and personal identity, sex dissimilarity, relationship conflict, and asymmetrical effects

Small Group Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 468-491

  Randel, Amy E ^a   Jaussi, Kimberly S ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Gender; Groups; Relationship conflict; Sex dissimilarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049108562     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496408319875     Document Type: Article

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