Alexithymia and emotional regulation: A cluster analytical approach

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chen, Jie ^a,b   Xu, Ting ^b,c   Jing, Jin ^a   Chan, Raymond C K ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXTROVERT HIGH ALEXITHYMIA; FEMALE; GENERAL HIGH ALEXITHYMIA; HUMAN; INTROVERT HIGH ALEXITHYMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ALEXITHYMIA; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951852482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-33     Document Type: Article

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