A cognitive and an affective dimension of alexithymia in six languages and seven populations

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1125-1136

  Bermond, Bob ^a   Clayton, Kymbra ^b   Liberova, Alla ^a   Luminet, Olivier ^c   Maruszewski, Tomasz ^d   Ricci Bitti, Pio E ^e   Rimé, Bernard ^c   Vorst, Harrie H ^a   Wagner, Hugh ^f   Wicherts, Jelte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTIONALITY; EMPLOYEE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTROSPECTION; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VARIANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547534444     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930601056989     Document Type: Article

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