Mindfulness predicts less texting while driving among young adults: Examining attention- and emotion-regulation motives as potential mediators

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 856-861

  Feldman, Greg ^a   Greeson, Jeff ^b   Renna, Megan ^a   Robbins Monteith, Kendra ^a  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Driving; Emotion regulation; Mindfulness; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052095240     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.020     Document Type: Article

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