Discriminative facility in perceptions of control and its relation to psychological distress

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 179-191

  Roussi, Pagona ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coping; Discriminative facility; Flexibility in coping; Perceptions of control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036013119     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800290028477     Document Type: Article

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