Objective and perceived physiological arousal in trait social anxiety and post-event processing of a prepared speaking task

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 980-984

  Gramer, Margit ^a   Schild, Elisa ^a   Lurz, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Naturalistic stressor anticipation; Perceived arousal; Rumination; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866314533     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.07.013     Document Type: Article

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