The buffering effects of rejection-inhibiting attentional training on social and performance threat among adult students

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-50

  Dandeneau, Stéphane D ^a   Baldwin, Mark W ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult students; Attentional bias; Hypervigilance for rejection; Peer rejection; Self esteem; Social cognitive training

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349141491     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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