Moderators and Mediators of the Stress-Aggression Relationship: Executive Function and State Anger

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-73

  Sprague, Jenessa ^a   Verona, Edelyn ^a   Kalkhoff, Will ^b   Kilmer, Ashley ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anger; Executive function; Hostility; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRIEF COLLEGE STUDENT HASSLES SCALE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED ORAL WORD ASSOCIATION TEST; DATA ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SHIPLEY INSTITUTE FOR LIVING SCALE; SOCIAL READJUSTMENT RATING SCALE; STRESS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952835136     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021788     Document Type: Article

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