Counterfactual thinking and functional differences in depression

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 352-365

  Quelhas, Ana Cristina ^a   Power, Mick J ^b,c   Juhos, Csongor ^a   Senos, Jorge ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HOPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PORTUGAL; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 62349110192     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.593     Document Type: Article

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