Nightmares, Life Stress, and Anxiety: An Examination of Tension Reduction

Dreaming

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-29

  Roberts, Jan ^a   Lennings, C J ^b   Heard, R ^b  

^a University of Sydney ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

adolescence; anxiety; life events; nightmares

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049088515     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014787     Document Type: Article

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