Desirable responding mediates the relationship between emotion regulation and anxiety

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-151

  Arndt, Jody E ^a   Hoglund, Wendy L G ^b   Fujiwara, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Impression management; Reappraisal; Self deception; Self enhancement; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876784101     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.02.022     Document Type: Article

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