No evidence for a close relationship between personality traits and circadian cortisol rhythm or a single cortisol stress response

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 1, 1999, Pages 840-842

  Schommer, N C ^b   Kudielka, B M ^b   Hellhammer, D H ^b   Kirschbaum, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SALIVA;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033147032     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.84.3.840     Document Type: Article

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