Thinking about rumination: The scholarly contributions and intellectual legacy of susan nolen-hoeksema

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-22

  Lyubomirsky, Sonja ^a   Layous, Kristin ^a   Chancellor, Joseph ^b   Nelson, S Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAREER; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EATING DISORDER; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOOD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK FACTOR; RUMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THINKING; WORK EXPERIENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924044049     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: 15485951     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032814-112733     Document Type: Article

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