Open AccessFactors affecting the interrelationship between cynical hostility and dental anxiety among dental patients
Author(s) -
Shashidhar Acharya,
Kalyana Chakravarthy Pentapati,
Samuel Raj Srinivasan,
Sachin Khatri
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_112_17
Subject(s) - hostility , socioeconomic status , anxiety , distrust , mediation , context (archaeology) , medicine , clinical psychology , psychology , demography , population , psychiatry , environmental health , geography , archaeology , sociology , political science , law , psychotherapist
The objectives of this study were to assess the relationship between dental anxiety and cynical hostility in a sample of dental patients and to study the possible role of socioeconomic status (SES) in this relationship.