Coping Strategies Related to the Uncontrollability of Thoughts : Information Avoidance, Information Seeking, Solution Generation, and Worry

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 186-197

  Sugiura, Yoshinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Persistence of thinking; Uncontrollability of thoughts; Worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035637666     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.49.2_186     Document Type: Article

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