Health-related quality of life varies with personality types: A comparison among cancer patients, non-cancer patients and healthy individuals in a Japanese population

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 535-544

  Yamaoka, K ^a   Shigehisa, T ^b   Ogoshi, K ^c   Haruyama, K ^d   Watanabe, M ^e   Hayashi, F ^f   Hayashi, C ^g  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO KASEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e SHOWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Toyo Eiwa University   (Japan)

^g INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

EPQ; Health related quality of life; Personality traits; Stomach cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031660288     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008830509237     Document Type: Article

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