Defensive focus and the defense style questionnaire

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 217-223

  Wastell, Colin A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032902207     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199904000-00004     Document Type: Article

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