What Will I Be? Exploring Gender Differences in Near and Distant Possible Selves

Sex Roles

Volumn 63, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 568-579

  Brown, Elizabeth R ^a   Diekman, Amanda B ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Possible selves; Social roles

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956494820     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9827-x     Document Type: Article

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