Job stress, personality, and psychological distress as determinants of somatization and functional somatic syndromes in a population of nurses

Stress and Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 195-204

  De Gucht, Véronique ^a   Fischler, Benjamin ^b   Heiser, Willem ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; JOB PERFORMANCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROSIS; NURSING STAFF; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0142061142     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.975     Document Type: Article

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