Does meta-cognitive theory enhance our understanding of pathological worry and anxiety?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 513-526

  Davis, Robert N ^a   Valentiner, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety symptoms; Generalised anxiety disorder; Meta cognition; Trait anxiety; Worry; Worry beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034259999     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00211-1     Document Type: Article

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