The looming cognitive style and generalized anxiety disorder: Distinctive danger schemas and cognitive phenomenology

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-27

  Riskind, John H ^a   Williams, Nathan L ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Danger schemas looming vulnerability; Discrimination of anxiety from depression; Generalized anxiety disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; PHENOMENOLOGY;

EID: 15244338981     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-005-1645-z     Document Type: Article

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