The Anxious Thoughts Inventory and Related Measures of Metacognition and Worry

Worry and its Psychological Disorders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 121-136

  Wells, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Criterion groups; Cronbach alpha coefficients; Metacognition; Normal worry; Psychological disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889311753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713143.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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