A sib-pair study of psychoticism, life events and depression

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 613-623

  Pickering, Andrea ^a   Farmer, Anne ^a   Harris, Tanya ^a   Redman, Kate ^a   Mahmood, Arshad ^a   Sadler, Stephanie ^a   McGuffin, Peter ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adversity; Depression; Familial; Life events; Personality; Psychoticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037355891     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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