Outness, Big Five personality traits, and same-sex relationship quality

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 211-226

  Clausell, Eric ^a   Roisman, Glenn I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Five factor personality; Observational; Relationship satisfaction; Same sex couples; Self disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449096490     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: 14603608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407509106711     Document Type: Article

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