Ethnicity, class and schizotypy

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 507-512

  Sharpley, M S ^a   Peters, E R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELUSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DELUSIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; WEST INDIES;

EID: 0032700324     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050168     Document Type: Article

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