Attentional coping style in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: A test of the intolerance of uncertainty hypothesis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-57

  Gallagher, Natalie Gibbs ^a   South, Susan C ^a   Oltmanns, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidant personality; Dispositional coping style; Information seeking; Intolerance of uncertainty; Monitoring; Obsessive compulsive personality; Peer assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037211921     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00025-9     Document Type: Article

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