Attachment and dysfunctional rumination: The mediating role of Emotional Intelligence abilities

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 753-758

  Lanciano, Tiziana ^a   Curci, Antonietta ^a   Kafetsios, Konstantinos ^b   Elia, Lucia ^a   Zammuner, Vanda Lucia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attachment style; Dysfunctional rumination; Emotional Intelligence; Emotional processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864298074     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.027     Document Type: Article

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