A comparison of two approaches to the assessment of coping styles

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 913-916

  Egloff, Boris ^a   Hock, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive avoidance; Coping styles; Dispositional vigilance; Social desirability; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031280744     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00102-5     Document Type: Article

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