Personality traits and anxiety symptoms: The multilevel trait predictor model

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1485-1503

  Kotov, Roman ^a   Watson, David ^b   Robles, Jennifer P ^c   Schmidt, Norman B ^d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Comorbidity; Depression; Distress; Personality

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PERSONALITY TEST; POSITIVE SYNDROME; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 34247604046     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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