A psychometric investigation of two self-report measures of emotional expressivity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 693-702

  Dobbs, Jennifer L ^a   Sloan, Denise M ^b   Karpinski, Andrew ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Emotion; Emotional expression; Exploratory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250701721     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.01.010     Document Type: Article

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