Perseverative cognition, psychopathology, and somatic health

Emotion Regulation and Well-Being

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 85-100

  Verkuil, Bart ^a   Brosschot, Jos F ^a   Gebhardt, Winifred A ^a   Thayer, Julian F ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6953-8_6     Document Type: Chapter

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