Coping with medical threat: An evaluation of the Threatening Medical Situations Inventory (TMSI)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-31

  Van Zuuren, Florence J ^a   De Groot, Karina I ^b   Mulder, Niels L ^c   Muris, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c HELEN DOWLING INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0030188366     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(96)00029-3     Document Type: Article

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