Repressive Emotional Discreteness after Failure

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1318-1326

  Egloff, Boris ^a   Krohne, Heinz Walter ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPRESSION;

EID: 0030162058     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.6.1318     Document Type: Article

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