The relationship between dispositional mindfulness, attachment security and emotion regulation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 622-626

  Goodall, Karen ^a   Trejnowska, Anna ^a   Darling, Stephen ^a  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult attachment; Anxiety; Avoidance; Dispositional mindfulness; Emotion regulation; Exploratory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856624193     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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