Negative urgency fully mediates the relationship between alexithymia and dysregulated behaviours

Personality and Mental Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 284-293

  Fink, Erin L ^a   Anestis, Michael D ^a   Selby, Edward A ^a   Joiner, Thomas E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78649536965     PISSN: 19328621     EISSN: 1932863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmh.138     Document Type: Article

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