Emotion Regulation and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 87-102

  Seligowski, Antonia V ^a   Lee, Daniel J ^b   Bardeen, Joseph R ^b   Orcutt, Holly K ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion regulation; meta analysis; PTSD; trauma

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84927581137     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2014.980753     Document Type: Review

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