Enhancing Emotion-Regulation Skills in Police Officers: Results of a Pilot Controlled Study

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-339

  Berking, Matthias ^a   Meier, Caroline ^b   Wupperman, Peggilee ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PILOT STUDY; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TRAINING; AFFECT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

ADULT; AFFECT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953684681     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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