Predicting anger in social anxiety: The mediating role of rumination

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1079-1084

  Trew, Jennifer L ^a   Alden, Lynn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anger experience; Anger expression; Mediation; Rumination; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; THINKING;

EID: 70350575746     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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