The role of anxiety sensitivity and lack of emotional approach coping in depressive symptom severity among a non-clinical sample of uncued panickers

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-87

  Tull, Matthew T ^a   Gratz, Kim L ^a   Lacroce, Donna M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Coping; Depression; Emotion; Emotion dysregulation; Emotion regulation, panic; Panic attacks; Panic disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PANIC; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; CUES; DEPRESSION; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33745107528     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506070500466733     Document Type: Article

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