Personality and the experience of environmental adversity

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1193-1202

  Kendler, Kenneth S ^a,b   Gardner, C O ^a   Prescott, C A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CRIME; DIVORCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LAW SUIT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROSIS; OCCUPATION; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS; TEMPERAMENT; TWINS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEMPERAMENT; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0142030658     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291703008298     Document Type: Article

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