Active use of the natural environment for emotion regulation

Europe's Journal of Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 798-819

  Johnsen, Svein Åge Kjøs ^a,b   Rydstedt, Leif W ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Environment; Mood; Nature; Person environment studies; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888813258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18410413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v9i4.633     Document Type: Article

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