Are Rumination and Worry Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 363-381

  Topper, Maurice ^a   Molenaar, Dylan ^a   Emmelkamp, Paul M G ^a,b   Ehring, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Repetitive Negative Thinking; Rumination; Structural Equation Modelling; Transdiagnostic; Worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973425912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.038813     Document Type: Article

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