The relationship between emotional intelligence and alexithymia

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-115

  Parker, James D A ^a   Taylor, Graeme J ^b   Bagby, R Michael ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Emotional intelligence; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035808725     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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