Predicting individual differences in mindfulness: The role of trait anxiety, attachment anxiety and attentional control

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-99

  Walsh, James J ^a   Balint, Marc G ^a   Smolira SJ, David R ^a   Fredericksen, Line Kamstrup ^a   Madsen, Stine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment anxiety; Attentional control; Mindfulness; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649118952     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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