Self-report and linguistic indicators of emotional expression in narratives as predictors of adjustment to cancer.
Emotional expression and cognitive efforts to adapt to cancer have been linked to better psychological adjustment. However, little is known about the relationship between linguistic indicators of emotional and cognitive coping efforts and corresponding self-report measures of related constructs. In...
| Published in: | Journal of Behavioral Medicine Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 335 - 346 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Aug2006
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