Predicting anxiety and depression from personality: Is there a synergistic effect of neuroticism and extraversion?

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 145-149

  Jorm, Anthony F ^a   Christensen, Helen ^a   Henderson, A Scott ^a   Jacomb, Patricia A ^a   Korten, Ailsa E ^a   Rodgers, Bryan ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY;

EID: 0034056376     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.109.1.145     Document Type: Article

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