The Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ) as a measure of Gray's anxiety and impulsivity dimensions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 837-862

  Torrubia, Rafael ^a   Ávila, César ^b   Moltó, Javier ^b   Caseras, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavioural activation system; Behavioural inhibition system; Gray's model; Impulsivity; Sensitivity to punishment; Sensitivity to reward; Spsrq

Indexed keywords

EID: 18044369249     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00183-5     Document Type: Article

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