Antecedent- and Response-Focused Emotion Regulation: Divergent Consequences for Experience, Expression, and Physiology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 224-237

  Gross, James J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH;

EID: 0031603708     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.1.224     Document Type: Article

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