Introversion and extroversion: Implications for depression and suicidality

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 444-450

  Janowsky, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar Patient; Extroversion Score; Eysenck Personality Inventory; Subsyndromal Depression; Unipolar Depression

Indexed keywords

EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN; INTROVERSION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTROVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0142224940     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-001-0037-7     Document Type: Article

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