Direct and indirect predictors of social anxiety: The role of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, experiential avoidance and self-consciousness

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1875-1882

  Panayiotou, Georgia ^a   Karekla, Maria ^a   Panayiotou, Margarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL INHIBITION; CONDITIONING; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONSCIOUSNESS; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TEMPERAMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CYPRUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CYPRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84912037854     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.08.045     Document Type: Article

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