Better out than in: The influence of anger regulation on physical performance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 457-460

  Davis, Paul A ^a   Woodman, Tim ^b   Callow, Nichola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anger in; Anger out; Emotion regulation; Trait anger

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954214319     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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