Parental attachment and its relationship to contextualised trait expression and mean-corrected cross-context trait variability

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 547-552

  Robinson, Oliver ^a   Wright, Gordon R T ^b   Kendall, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Intra individual variability; Parental attachment; Personality; Social context

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551575000     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.024     Document Type: Article

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