Personality Differences in Emotions: Does Emotion Regulation Play a Role?

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 100-106

  Ng, Weiting ^a   Diener, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion regulation; emotions; extraversion; neuroticism; personality differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249108742     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.30.2.100     Document Type: Article

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