Social Anxiety and Social Anxiety Disorder Across Cultures

Social Anxiety: Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 141-158

  Brockveld, Keila C ^a   Perini, Sarah J ^a   Rapee, Ronald M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Cross cultural; Culture; Social anxiety; Taijin kyofusho

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942029401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394427-6.00006-6     Document Type: Chapter

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