Personality and inhibitory deficits in the stop-signal task: The mediating role of Gray's anxiety and impulsivity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 975-986

  Avila, César ^a   Parcet, Maria Antònia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extraversion; Gray's model; Impulsivity; Inhibitory control; Newman's model; Sensitivity to punishment; Sensitivity to reward; Spsrq

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035888842     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00199-9     Document Type: Article

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