Implicit motives and explicit goals: Two distinctive modes of motivational functioning and their relations to psychopathology

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-96

  Michalak, Johannes ^a   Püschel, Oliver ^a   Joormann, Jutta ^a   Schulte, Dietmar ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; OUTPATIENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 33646356203     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.440     Document Type: Article

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