Who benefits from disclosure? Exploration of attachment style differences in the effects of expressing emotions

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-85

  Stroebe, Margaret ^a   Schut, Henk ^a   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attachment style; Bereavement; Coping; Health; Self disclosure; Well being

Indexed keywords

BEREAVEMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; GRIEF; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 29144441312     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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