Measuring grievance thinking in sexual offenders: The revised dissipation-rumination scale

Journal of Sexual Aggression

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 273-289

  Wakeling, Helen Catherine ^a   Barnett, Georgia ^a  

^a National Probation Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grievance thinking; Psychometric validation; Rumination; Sexual offender

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053500138     PISSN: 13552600     EISSN: 17426545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13552600.2010.495422     Document Type: Article

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