Gender differences in the relationship between attentional bias to threat and social anxiety in adolescents

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-112

  Zhao, Xin ^a,b   Zhang, Peng ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Zhou, Renlai ^b  

^a NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Attentional bias; Gender differences; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906511473     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.023     Document Type: Article

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