Adult attachment styles and stressor severity as moderators of the coping sequence

Personal Relationships

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 502-517

  Holmberg, Diane ^a   Lomore, Christine D ^b   Takacs, Trista A ^a,c   Price, E Lisa ^a  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 80052397692     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: 14756811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2010.01318.x     Document Type: Article

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