Controllability awareness and maladjusted personality traits: Preliminary findings

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 184-190

  Somer, Eli ^a   Heth, Josephine Todrank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS; TERRORISM;

EID: 13644253832     PISSN: 03337308     EISSN: 26172402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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