Worrying about chronic pain: Vigilance to threat and misdirected problem solving

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 457-470

  Aldrich, Sarah ^a   Eccleston, Chris ^a   Crombez, Geert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITION; FEAR; HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; THREAT;

ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; PAIN; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0034099921     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00062-5     Document Type: Article

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