Clients' positive and negative expressiveness within their families and alexithymia

Psychological Reports

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 563-569

  Yelsma, Paul ^a   Hovestadt, Alan J ^b   Nilsson, Johanna E ^b   Paul, Brian D ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032043491     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.2.563     Document Type: Article

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