Mood specific media use and emotion regulation: Patterns and individual differences

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 616-621

  Greenwood, Dara N ^a   Long, Christopher R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Media; Mood; Music; Reflection; Rumination; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749095322     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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