Complicated Grief and Deficits in Emotional Expressive Flexibility

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 635-643

  Gupta, Sumati ^a   Bonanno, George A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Complicated grief; Emotion regulation; Expressive flexibility; Loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WIDOW;

EID: 80051827317     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023541     Document Type: Article

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