Gender differences in personality traits and disorders

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-74

  Paris, Joel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDERLINE STATE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; NARCISSISM; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPATHY; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIALIZATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; ADULT; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 2342559121     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-004-0042-8     Document Type: Review

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