Attachment-related avoidance and the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 406-413

  Abeyta, Andrew A ^a   Routledge, Clay ^a   Roylance, Christina ^a   Wildschut, Tim ^b   Sedikides, Constantine ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; attachment style; attachment related avoidance; nostalgia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930447350     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: 14603608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407514533770     Document Type: Article

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