The Impact of an Emotional Self-Management Skills Course on Psychosocial Functioning and Autonomic Recovery to Stress in Middle School Children

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 246-268

  McCraty, Rollin ^a   Atkinson, Mike ^a   Tomasino, Dana ^a   Goelitz, Jeff ^b   Mayrovitz, Harvey N ^c  

^a Institute of HeartMath   (United States)

^b HeartMath   (United States)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033206351     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688693     Document Type: Article

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