Are "not just right experiences" (NJREs) specific to obsessive-compulsive symptoms?: Evidence that NJREs span across symptoms of emotional disorders

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 353-363

  Fergus, Thomas A ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional disorders; Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); Not just right experience (NJRE); Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896736176     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: 10974679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22034     Document Type: Article

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