The Sense Of Entitlement In Romantic Relationships-Scale Construction, Factor Structure, Construct Validity, And Its Associations With Attachment Orientations

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-94

  Tolmacz, Rami ^a   Mikulincer, Mario ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attachment; Romantic relationships; Sense of entitlement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMOTIONALITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; INTIMACY; LIFE SATISFACTION; LOVE; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD; PERSONALITY; POWERLESSNESS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SENSE OF RELATIONAL ENTITLEMENT SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 79952420520     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: 19391331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021479     Document Type: Article

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