Illusion of Control: Invulnerability to Negative Affect and Depressive Symptoms After Laboratory and Natural Stressors

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 234-245

  Alloy, Lauren B ^a   Clements, Caroline M ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; INTROVERSION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MOOD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RATING SCALE; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AROUSAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSIONS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REALITY TESTING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026636533     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.101.2.234     Document Type: Article

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