Relationship Duration Moderates Associations Between Attachment and Relationship Quality: Meta-Analytic Support for the Temporal Adult Romantic Attachment Model

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-58

  Hadden, Benjamin W ^a   Smith, C Veronica ^b   Webster, Gregory D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

close relationships; gender; individual differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LOVE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SATISFACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS; GENDER; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892448835     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868313501885     Document Type: Article

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