Attachment styles and interpersonal approach and avoidance goals in everyday couple interactions

Personal Relationships

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-374

  Locke, Kenneth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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EID: 49449097646     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: 14756811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2008.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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