Associations among sick building syndrome, psychosocial factors, and personality traits

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 100, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 747-759

  Runeson, Roma ^a   Norbäck, Dan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 23744499753     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.100.3.747-759     Document Type: Review

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