Ruminative response style and vulnerability to episodes of dysphoria: Gender, neuroticism, and episode duration

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-423

  Roberts, John E ^a,b,e   Gilboa, Eva ^a,c   Gotlib, Ian H ^a,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysphoria; Neuroticism; Ruminative response style

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSPHORIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031719650     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018713313894     Document Type: Article

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