Predicting approach-avoidance: The roles of coping styles, state anxiety, and situational appraisal

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-84

  Rutherford, Alexandra ^a   Endler, Norman S ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Approach avoidance; Coping styles; State anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033244182     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615809908248323     Document Type: Article

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