Family-of-origin expressiveness: Measurement, meaning, and relationship to alexithymia

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 353-363

  Yelsma, Paul ^a   Hovestadt, Alan J ^a   Anderson, William T ^b   Nilsson, Johanna E ^c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; STUDENTS;

EID: 0034220169     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00304.x     Document Type: Article

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