Rumination and worry as mediators of the relationship between self-compassion and depression and anxiety

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 757-761

  Raes, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Rumination; Self compassion; Worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349087294     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.023     Document Type: Article

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