Assessing emotional expression: Spanish adaptation of the rationality/emotional defensiveness scale

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 719-729

  Fernandez Ballesteros, Rocio ^a   Zamarrón, Maria Dolores ^a   Ruiz, Maria Angeles ^b   Sebastian, Julia ^a   Spielberger, Charles D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antiemotionality; Psychometric properties; Psychosocial factors in breast cancer; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031138644     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0191-8869(96)00250-4     Document Type: Article

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