Sleep characteristics of Japanese working men who score alexithymic on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART I, 1997, Pages 859-865

  Fukunishi, Isao ^a   Kawamura, Noriyuki ^b   Ishikawa, Toshio ^b   Ago, Yukihiro ^b   Yamasaki, Yasuo ^c   Sei, Hiroyoshi ^d   Morita, Yusuke ^d   Fukui, Toshio ^e   Tatemichi, Masayuki ^e   Horiguchi, Etsuko ^f   Rahe, Richard H ^g  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^c SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^e Sony Wellness Center   (Japan)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; JAPAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP DISORDER; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MULTIPHASIC SCREENING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0031155074     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.84.3.859     Document Type: Article

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