Responding to anxiety with rumination and hopelessness: Mechanism of anxiety-depression symptom co-occurrence?

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 321-337

  Starr, Lisa R ^a   Davila, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxious rumination; Comorbidity; Depression; Hopelessness; Response styles

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MALE; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

EID: 84864708806     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: 15732819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-011-9363-1     Document Type: Article

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