All you need is love? Strengths mediate the negative associations between attachment orientations and life satisfaction

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1050-1055

  Lavy, Shiri ^a   Littman Ovadia, Hadassah ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attachment; Avoidance; Character strength; Life satisfaction; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952630276     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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