Negative mood, self-focused attention, and the experience of physical symptoms: The joint impact hypothesis

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-144

  Gendolla, Guido H E ^a   Abele, Andrea E ^b   Andrei, Andrea ^b   Spurk, Daniel ^b   Richter, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Self focus; Symptom experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 22244490310     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.2.131     Document Type: Article

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