Unpleasant and pleasant referential thinking: Relations with self-processing, paranoia, and other schizotypal traits

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 208-218

  Cicero, David C ^a   Kerns, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Big five personality; Confirmatory factor analysis; Paranoia; Referential thinking; Schizotypal personality; Schizotypy; Self consciousness; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953238083     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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