Having a Cyberball: Using a ball-throwing game as an experimental social stressor to examine the relationship between neuroticism and coping

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 396-401

  Boyes, Mark E ^a   French, Davina J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coping; Cyberball; Neuroticism; Ostracism

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349131628     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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