Defensive styles and psychological symptoms among chinese adolescents in Hong Kong

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 269-276

  Chan, D W ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONFLICT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; CHINA; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0030812398     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00789039     Document Type: Article

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