Emotional intelligence and clinical symptoms in outpatients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-260

  Lizeretti, Nathalie P ^a   Extremera, Natalio ^b  

^a Sanitary Consortium of Maresme   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical symptoms; Emotional intelligence; Generalized anxiety disorder; Trait meta mood scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT;

EID: 80052624082     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: 15736709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11126-011-9167-1     Document Type: Article

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