Breath holding duration as a measure of distress tolerance: Examining its relation to measures of executive control

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Sütterlin, Stefan ^a,b   Schroijen, Mathias ^b   Constantinou, Elena ^b   Smets, Elyn ^b   Van den Bergh, Omer ^b   Van Diest, Ilse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breath holding; Distress tolerance; Emotion regulation; Executive functions; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882624957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00483     Document Type: Article

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