Gray's Behavioural Inhibition System as a mediator of mindfulness towards well-being

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 506-511

  Sauer, Sebastian ^a,b   Walach, Harald ^c,d   Kohls, Niko ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Peter Schilffarth Institute for Sociotechnology   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^d SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural Inhibition System; Mediators; Mindfulness; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650570827     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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