Self enhancing believes relationship to psychological distress examined by anxiety related attentional biases

Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-76

  Vincze, Anna Emese ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Attentional biases; Implicit measures; Positive illusions; Psychological distress

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954506731     PISSN: 15847101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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