Does personality predict blood pressure over a 10-year period?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1313-1321

  Leclerc, Jocelyne ^a   Rahn, Michelle ^a   Linden, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Depression; Disease development; Hostility; Impression management; Personality; Personality stability; Prospective study; Self deception

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644586435     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.015     Document Type: Article

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