Psychometric properties of the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire for children

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-105

  Rieffe, Carolien ^a   Terwogt, Mark Meerum ^b   Petrides, K V ^c   Cowan, Richard ^c   Miers, Anne C ^a   Tolland, Abigail ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Children; Emotion awareness; Health

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947583054     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.015     Document Type: Article

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