Problem-focused coping strategies and the uncontrollability of thoughts: Mediating role of meta-cognition

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 271-282

  Sugiura, Yoshinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internal statements; Persistence of thinking; Problem focused coping strategies; Uncontrollability of thoughts; Worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036762755     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.50.3_271     Document Type: Article

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