A preliminary investigation of sex differences in associations between emotion regulation difficulties and higher-order cognitive abilities

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-75

  Bardeen, Joseph R ^a,b,c   Stevens, Erin N ^a   Murdock, Kyle W ^a   Christine Lovejoy, M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive abilities; Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; Emotion regulation; Executive functioning; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875577044     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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