Negative affect and ruminative self-focus during everyday goal pursuit

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 729-739

  Moberly, Nicholas J ^a   Watkins, Edward R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Experience sampling; Goals; Rumination; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; GOAL IMPORTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL IRRITATION; MOTIVATION; NEGATIVE AFFECT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINATION; RUMINATIVE SELF FOCUS; SADNESS; SELF REGULATION MODEL;

EID: 77952324128     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802696849     Document Type: Article

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