Emotional inhibition, health, gender, and eating disorders: The role of (over) sensitivity to others

Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 170-183

  Bekker, Marrie H J ^a   Spoor, Sonja T P ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-29986-0_11     Document Type: Chapter

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