Cognitive processes, strain, and stress: Gender differences in stress propensity indicators

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-62

  Wofford, J C ^a   Daly, Paula S ^b   Juban, Rusty L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cognition; Gender differences; Strain; Stress; Stress propensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033244183     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615809908248322     Document Type: Article

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