A short form of the worry domains questionnaire: Construction and factorial validation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 591-598

  Stöber, Joachim ^a   Joormann, Jutta ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Generalized anxiety disorder; Scale construction; Structural equation modeling; Worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 18044401997     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00163-X     Document Type: Article

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