A scale to measure nonattachment: a Buddhist complement to Western research on attachment and adaptive functioning.

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Published in J Pers Assess on March 01, 2010

Authors

Baljinder Kaur Sahdra1, Phillip R Shaver, Kirk Warren Brown

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA. bksahdra@ucdavis.edu

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