What Else Do You Feel When You Feel Sad? Emotional Overproduction, Neuroticism and Rumination

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 881-895

  Hervas, Gonzalo ^a   Vazquez, Carmelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Depression; Emotional processing; Emotional responses; Neuroticism; Ruminative style

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL OVERPRODUCTION; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MALE; MOOD; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; RUMINATIVE STYLE; SAD; SENSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052298008     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021770     Document Type: Article

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