A desire for desires: Boredom and its relation to alexithymia

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1035-1045

  Eastwood, John D ^a   Cavaliere, Carolina ^a   Fahlman, Shelley A ^a   Eastwood, Adrienne E ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Halton Child and Youth Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Boredom; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846356431     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.08.027     Document Type: Article

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