How Goals and Beliefs Lead People Into and Out of Depression

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 302-314

  Rothbaum, Fred ^a   Morling, Beth ^b   Rusk, Natalie ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive vulnerabilities; depression; learning goals; performance goals; self handicapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949083912     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017140     Document Type: Article

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