Substance abusers report being more alexithymic than others but do not show emotional processing deficits on a performance measure of alexithymia

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-321

  Lindsay, Julie ^a   Ciarrochi, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Emotion regulation; Level of emotional awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749103454     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350802472056     Document Type: Article

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