Self-reported and other-rated trait anxiety and defensiveness in repressor, low-anxious, high-anxious, and defensive high-anxious groups

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-144

  Eysenck, Michael W ^a   Derakshan, Nazanin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defensiveness; Other ratings; Repressors; Self ratings; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033247001     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615809908248326     Document Type: Article

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