The roles of affect dysregulation and deficient affect in youth violence

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 709-731

  Penney, Stephanie R ^a   Moretti, Marlene M ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Aggression; Deficient affect; Delinquency; Psychopathy; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952346156     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854810365446     Document Type: Article

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