What might not have been: An investigation of the nature of counterfactual thinking in survivors of trauma

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1215-1225

  Dalgleish, Tim ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; THINKING;

EID: 8744266223     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329170400193X     Document Type: Article

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