Generalised Anxiety Disorder: Relationships with Eysenck's, Gray's and Newman's theories

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-17

  Gomez, Rapson ^a   Francis, Lee M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b South E Sydney Area Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extraversion; Generalised anxiety disorder; Neuroticism; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037212274     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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