Approach and avoidance goals and plans: Their relationship to anxiety and depression

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 415-432

  Dickson, Joanne M ^a   MacLeod, Andrew K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; goals and plans

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 3042733158     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COTR.0000031809.20488.ee     Document Type: Review

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