Language of motivation and emotion in an Internet support group for smoking cessation: Explorative use of automated content analysis to measure regulatory focus

Psychology Research and Behavior Management

Volumn 7, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-29

  Johnsen, Jan Are K ^a   Vambheim, Sara M ^a   Wynn, Rolf ^a,b   Wangberg, Silje C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Emotion; Prevention; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892583546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/PRBM.S54947     Document Type: Article

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