Nightmare frequency, personality and acute psychopathology

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 843-851

  Chivers, Liam ^a   Blagrove, Mark ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nightmares; Personality; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033227979     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00033-1     Document Type: Article

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