Facial affect recognition in non-clinical adults with borderline personality features: The role of effortful control and rejection sensitivity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 799-804

  Gardner, Kathryn Jane ^a   Qualter, Pamela ^a   Stylianou, Maria ^b   Robinson, Andrea Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY PAFOS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Borderline personality disorder; Effortful control; Emotion perception; Executive control; Facial affect recognition; Rejection sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955923599     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.018     Document Type: Article

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