The Chinese Coping Strategies Scale: Relationships with aggression, anger, and rumination in a diverse sample of Hong Kong Chinese adults

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1049-1059

  Maxwell, J P ^a   Siu, O L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anger; Chinese; Coping; Rumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949111354     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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