Somatoform symptoms in a Japanese community population: Prevalence and association with personality characteristics

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-227

  Ono, Yutaka ^a   Yoshimura, Kimio ^a,b   Yamauchi, Keita ^a   Asai, Masahiro ^a   Young, Jerome ^a,e,f   Fujihara, Shigeki ^c,g   Kitamura, Toshinori ^a,d,h  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Yamazumi Hospital   (Japan)

^d National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^e TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^g NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^h Faculty of Environmental Information ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Extraversion; Gender difference; Neuroticism; Somatization; Somatoform disorder; Values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATIZATION;

EID: 0034047043     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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