Metacognitive beliefs and strategies predict worry, obsessive - Compulsive symptoms and coping styles: A preliminary prospective study on an Italian non-clinical sample

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 258-268

  Sica, Claudio ^a   Steketee, Gail ^b   Ghisi, Marta ^c   Chiri, Luigi Rocco ^a   Franceschini, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; THINKING;

EID: 34548234878     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.520     Document Type: Article

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