Increasing correlations between personality traits and cortisol stress responses obtained by data aggregation

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 615-625

  Pruessner, Jens C ^a   Gaab, Jens ^a   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a   Lintz, Doris ^a   Schommer, Nicole ^a   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; Cortisol; Data aggregation; HPA axis; Personality traits; Stress response

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SALIVA ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031426816     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(97)00072-3     Document Type: Article

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