Vulnerability to social stress: Coping as a mediator or moderator of sociotropy and symptoms of anxiety and depression

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-55

  Connor Smith, Jennifer K ^a   Compas, Bruce E ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; coping; depression; interpersonal stress; sociotropy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 1542428775     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013889504101     Document Type: Article

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