Relation of light and exercise to seasonal depressive symptoms: Preliminary development of a scale

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 379-383

  Groom, Kevin N ^a   O'Connor, Mary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER;

ADULT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER;

EID: 1842739393     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.2.379     Document Type: Article

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