Females Are More Anxious Than Males: a Metacognitive Perspective
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Vol. 5 (2), 83-90
Abstract
Objective: Previous studies have suggested that anxiety disorders are more prevalent among women than men. The purpose of this study was to compare the metacognitive perspective of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in females with males.Keywords
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