Modeling the stress process: Personality eclipses dysfunctional cognitions and workload in predicting stress

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-181

  Conard, Maureen A ^a   Matthews, Russell A ^b  

^a SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Cognitions; Dysfunctional attitude scale; Personality; Stress; Workload

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248840941     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.07.023     Document Type: Article

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