Exploring emotion-regulation and autonomic physiology in metastatic breast cancer patients: Repression, suppression, and restraint of hostility

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 226-237

  Giese Davis, Janine ^a   Conrad, Ansgar ^a   Nouriani, Bita ^a   Spiegel, David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic physiology; Breast cancer; Emotion regulation; Emotional expression; Hostility; Repression; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248844021     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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