Children's self-reported coping strategies: The role of defensiveness and repressive adaptation

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-222

  Richards, Margaret M ^a   Steele, Ric G ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviorally avoidant; Children's coping; Cognitively avoidant; Defensiveness; Repressive adaptive style; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRESSION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248526234     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800701303298     Document Type: Article

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