Thought suppression and traumatic intrusions in undergraduate students: A correlational study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 485-493

  Rassin, Eric ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a   Muris, Peter ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Structural equation modelling; Thought suppression; Traumatic intrusions; Traumatic memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041906596     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00152-5     Document Type: Article

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