The relationships of a rationality/antiemotionality personality scale to mortalities of cancer and cardiovascular disease in a community population in Japan

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-111

  Hirokawa, Kumi ^a   Nagata, Chisato ^a   Takatsuka, Naoyoshi ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cardiovascular diseases; Health behavior; Mortality; Prospective cohort study; Rationality antiemotionality personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 1342286777     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(03)00046-1     Document Type: Article

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