Dispositional attachment orientations, contextual variations in attachment security, and compassion fatigue among volunteers working with traumatized individuals

Journal of Personality

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 355-366

  Pardess, Eleanor ^a   Mikulincer, Mario ^a   Dekel, Rachel ^b   Shaver, Phillip R ^c  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; COOPERATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VOLUNTEERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908325675     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12060     Document Type: Article

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