Cognitive effects of life stress and learned helplessness

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 301-319

  Yee, Penny L ^a   Edmondson, Beverly ^a   Santoro, Kristine E ^a   Begg, Anastasia E ^a   Hunter, Carla D ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*

Author keywords

Attributional style; Learned helplessness; Stress; worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039564217     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615809608249408     Document Type: Article

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