Rheumatoid arthritis, personality, stress response style, and coping with illness. A preliminary study

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 876, Issue , 1999, Pages 419-425

  Marcenaro, Maurizio ^b   Prete, Camilla ^b   Badini, Anna ^b   Sulli, Alberto ^b   Magi, Ermanno ^b   Cutolo, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STRESS;

EID: 0042490887     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07666.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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