Successful application of adaptive emotion regulation skills predicts the subsequent reduction of depressive symptom severity but neither the reduction of anxiety nor the reduction of general distress during the treatment of Major depressive disorder

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Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Wirtz, Carolin M ^a,b   Radkovsky, Anna ^a   Ebert, David D ^a,c   Berking, Matthias ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION REGULATION SKILL QUESTIONNAIRE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PREDICTION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84908152582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108288     Document Type: Article

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