Shame, intimacy and self-definition: An assessment of the emotional foundation and intimate relationship consequences of an introjective personality orientation

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 699-704

  Dorahy, Martin J ^a   Hanna, Donncha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intimacy; introjective personality; self definition; Shame

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMACY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SELF DEFINITION; SHAME; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SHAME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864870572     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318261427b     Document Type: Article

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