Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (IERQ): Scale Development and Psychometric Characteristics

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 341-356

  Hofmann, Stefan G ^a   Carpenter, Joseph K ^a   Curtiss, Joshua ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Classification; Depression; Emotion; Emotion regulation; Interpersonal; Mood

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 84957110329     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: 15732819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-016-9756-2     Document Type: Article

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