The cognitive mediation of obsessive-compulsive handwashing

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 843-850

  Jones, Mairwen K ^a   Menzies, Ross G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETIOLOGY; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HAIR; HAND WASHING; HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; MEAT; MENTAL PATIENT; OBSESSION; PREDICTION; RESPONSIBILITY; SOIL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0030756432     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(97)00035-1     Document Type: Article

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