Symptoms of specific and generalized social phobia: An examination of discriminant validity and structural relations with mood and anxiety symptoms

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 254-265

  Carter, Shawn A ^a   Wu, Kevin D ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOOD DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PANIC; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952884618     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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