The 'four As': A common framework for normal and abnormal personality?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 977-995

  Austin, Elizabeth J ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DSM III R; Personality; Personality disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034178681     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00154-3     Document Type: Article

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