Need and Ability to Achieve Closure: Relationships with symptoms of psychopathology

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-160

  Roets, Arne ^a   Soetens, Barbara ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ability; Anxiety; Depression; Mental health; Need for closure; Psychopathology; SCL 90

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957938073     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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