Reliability and validity of two widely-used worry questionnaires: Self-report and self-peer convergence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 887-890

  Stöber, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety neurosis; Measurement; Observers; Questionnaires; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032089260     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00232-8     Document Type: Article

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