Affect optimization and affect complexity: Modes and styles of regulation in adulthood

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 571-588

  Labouvie Vief, Gisela ^a   Medler, Marshall ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL STATUS; WELLBEING;

EID: 0036905102     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.17.4.571     Document Type: Article

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