The role of cognitive, emotional and personality factors in the experience of fatigue in a university and community sample

Psychology and Health

Volumn 26, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Kangas, Maria ^a   Montgomery, Guy H ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophising; Cognitions; Distress; Fatigue; Neuroticism; Rationality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY;

EID: 79960669471     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870440903521779     Document Type: Article

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