Enhancing attributional style as a resiliency factor in depressogenic stress generation

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 467-474

  Kleiman, Evan M ^a   Liu, Richard T ^b   Riskind, John H ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive vulnerabilities; depression; enhancing attributional style; resiliency; stress generation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878654010     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2012.684381     Document Type: Article

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