Effects of written emotional expression: The role of positive expectancies

Health Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-182

  Langens, Thomas A ^a   Schüler, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coping; Emotion regulation; Emotional expression; Response expectancies; Written expression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; SYMPTOM; WELLBEING; WRITTEN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EUROPE; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEGATIVISM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WRITING;

EID: 33947654436     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.26.2.174     Document Type: Article

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