Social anxiety and cardiovascular responses to an evaluative speaking task: The role of stressor anticipation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 371-381

  Gramer, Margit ^a   Sprintschnik, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active coping; Cardiovascular reactivity; Recovery; Social anxiety; Stressor anticipation

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148938775     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.016     Document Type: Article

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