Alexithymic traits as predictors of difficulties with adjustment in an outpatient cohort of expatriates in Tokyo

Psychological Reports

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-77

  Fukunishi, Isao ^a   Wogan, James ^b   Berger, Douglas ^b   Kuboki, Tomifusa ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AMBULATORY CARE; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TOKYO;

EID: 0033175501     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.1.67     Document Type: Article

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