Does Maladaptive Coping Mediate the Relationship Between Borderline Personality Traits and Reactive and Proactive Aggression?

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 403-413

  Gardner, Kathryn Jane ^a   Archer, John ^a   Jackson, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borderline personality traits; Maladaptive coping; Proactive aggression; Reactive aggression

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865287171     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.21437     Document Type: Article

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