Coping with dental treatment: Correlates of dispositional and domain specific monitoring and blunting

Psychology and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 323-337

  Van Zuuren, Florence J ^a   De Jongh, Ad ^b   Beekers, Carin ^a   Swinkels, Petrouschka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticipatory tension; Blunting; Dental anxiety; Monitoring; Need of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033448087     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870449908407331     Document Type: Article

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