Does unhappiness make you sick? The role of affect and neuroticism in the experience of common physical symptoms

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 907-917

  Brown, Kirk W ^a   Moskowitz, D S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0031116031     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.4.907     Document Type: Article

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