The relationship between individual differences in executive functioning and emotion regulation: A comprehensive review

Motivation and Its Regulation: The Control Within

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 133-151

  Schmeichel, Brandon J ^a   Tang, David ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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