Relationships between worry, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and meta-cognitive beliefs

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 899-913

  Wells, Adrian ^a   Papageorgiou, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Compulsions; Meta cognition; Obsessions; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COGNITION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031847656     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00070-9     Document Type: Article

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