Dependency, self-criticism, and the symptom specificity hypothesis in a depressed clinical sample

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1017-1026

  Desmet, Mattias ^a   Vanheule, Stijn ^a   Verhaeghe, Paul ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Sociotropy; Symptom specificity hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749344541     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.8.1017     Document Type: Article

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