A model proposal on the relationships between loneliness, insecure attachment, and inferiority feelings

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 111, Issue , 2017, Pages 19-24

  Akdoğan, Ramazan ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inferiority feelings; Insecure attachment; Loneliness

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LONELINESS; MEDIATOR; MODEL;

EID: 85011711862     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.048     Document Type: Article

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