Adaptive and maladaptive rumination in alexithymia and their relation with depressive symptoms

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-14

  Di Schiena, Raffaella ^a   Luminet, Olivier ^a   Philippot, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abstract; Alexithymia; Concrete; Maladaptive thinking; Processing modes; Rumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957919761     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.037     Document Type: Article

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