Psychological reactance in psychiatric patients: Examining the dimensionality and correlates of the Hong Psychological Reactance Scale in a large clinical sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-91

  De las Cuevas, Carlos ^a   Peñate, Wenceslao ^a   Betancort, Moisés ^a   de Rivera, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Factor structure; Hong Psychological Reactance Scale; Psychiatric outpatients

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904394757     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.06.027     Document Type: Article

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