Different perspectives on the sex-attachment link: Towards an emotion-motivational account

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 105-124

  Dewitte, Marieke ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84859193800     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2011.576351     Document Type: Review

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