Psychological flexibility mediates the relations between self-concealment and negative psychological outcomes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-247

  Masuda, Akihiko ^a   Anderson, Page L ^a   Wendell, Johanna W ^a   Chou, Ying Yi ^a   Price, Matthew ^a   Feinstein, Amanda B ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General psychological ill health; Psychological distress; Psychological flexibility; Self concealment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249259670     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.037     Document Type: Article

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