Nostalgia as a Repository of Social Connectedness: The Role of Attachment-Related Avoidance

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 573-586

  Wildschut, Tim ^a   Sedikides, Constantine ^a   Routledge, Clay ^b   Arndt, Jamie ^c   Cordaro, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

attachment; loneliness; nostalgia; social connectedness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONELINESS; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949956269     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017597     Document Type: Article

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