The short form BSRI: Instrumentality, expressiveness and gender associations among a United Kingdom sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 384-387

  Colley, Ann ^a   Mulhern, Gerry ^b   Maltby, John ^a   Wood, Alex M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expressiveness; Gender; Gender roles; Instrumentality

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149141409     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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