Cattell's 16 PF and PSY inventory: Relationship between personality traits and behavioral responses patients with acute myocardial infarction

Psychological Reports

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 691-702

  Bonaguidi, Franco ^a   Michelassi, Claudio ^a   Trivella, M Giovanna ^a   Carpeggiani, Clara ^a   Pruneti, Carlo A ^b   Cesana, Giancarlo ^c   L'Abbate, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SICK ROLE; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0030112830     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.691     Document Type: Article

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