Anxiety, coping strategies, and the processing of threatening information: Investigations with cognitive-experimental paradigms

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 916-925

  Krohne, Heinz Walter ^a   Hock, Michael ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cognitive avoidance; Coping; Repressive discontinuity; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952619729     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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