Examination of Cloninger's basic dimensions of personality in fatiguing illness: Chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 597-607

  Christodoulou, Christopher ^a,b   DeLuca, John ^a,b   Johnson, Susan K ^c   Lange, Gudrun ^a,b   Gaudino, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Natelson, Benjamin H ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic fatigue syndrome; Fatigue; Multiple sclerosis; Personality; Tridimensional personality questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYSTERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY;

EID: 0033401830     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(99)00063-X     Document Type: Article

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