Gender and age differences in emotion regulation strategies and their relationship to depressive symptoms

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 704-708

  Nolen Hoeksema, Susan ^a   Aldao, Amelia ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age differences; Emotion regulation; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961207902     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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