Face it or hide it: Parental socialization of reappraisal and response suppression

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Gunzenhauser, Catherine ^a   Fäsche, Anika ^a   Friedlmeier, Wolfgang ^b   Suchodoletz, Antje von ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive emotion regulation strategies; Emotion socialization; Parenting; Reappraisal; Response suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893538446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00992     Document Type: Article

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