Personality factors related to the prevalence of somatic symptoms and medical complaints in a healthy student population

British Journal of Medical Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-101

  Neitzert, Christina S ^a,b   Davis, Caroline ^b   Kennedy, Sidney H ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030975306     PISSN: 00071129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1997.tb01889.x     Document Type: Article

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