Perceived Strengths and Difficulties in Emotional Awareness and Accessing Emotion Regulation Strategies in Early Adolescents.
Emotional awareness (EA) and access to emotion regulation strategies (ER) are often conceptualized as being on a single continuum, yet discrepancies in these associations are found across samples. We conducted a person-centered analysis to identify distinct profiles of adolescents' perceived EA and...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 2631 - 2644 |
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