Psychological factors predicting stress symptoms: Metacognition, thought control, and varieties of worry

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-225

  Roussis, Panagiotis ^a   Wells, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metacognition; Stress symptoms; Thought control strategies; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS;

EID: 47049117305     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800801889600     Document Type: Article

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