On the specific depressotypic nature of excessive reassurance-seeking

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-145

  Burns, Andrea B ^a   Brown, Jessica S ^a   Plant, E Ashby ^a   Sachs Ericsson, Natalie ^a   Joiner Jr , Thomas E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Reassurance seeking; Specificity; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244477628     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.05.019     Document Type: Article

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