The Relationship between Rumination, Dysphoria, and Self-Referent Thinking: Some Preliminary Findings

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 317-342

  Smallwood, Jonathan ^a   Obsonsawin, Marc ^b   Baracaia, Simona F ^b   Reid, Helga ^b   O'Connor, Rory ^b   Heim, Derek ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33645015045     PISSN: 02762366     EISSN: 15414477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/2N80-AVM3-4A23-LEAJ     Document Type: Article

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