Alexithymia and adult attachment representations: Associations with the five-factor model of personality and perceived relationship adjustment

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1258-1268

  Taylor, Graeme J ^a   Bagby, R Michael ^a   Kushner, Shauna C ^a   Benoit, Diane ^b   Atkinson, Leslie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; DYADIC ADJUSTMENT SCALE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXPECTANT MOTHER; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSIS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SELF REPORT; SENSE OF COHERENCE; THINKING; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; OBJECT RELATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84902553857     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.03.015     Document Type: Article

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