Prevalence of typus melancholicus in healthy Germans

Psychopathology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 113-119

  Ueki, Hirofumi ^b   Holzapfel, Christian ^a   Sakado, Kaoru ^c   Washino, Kaei ^b   Inoue, Masato ^b   Ogawa, Naoshi ^b   Ietsugu, Tetsuji ^d   Takai, Akihiro ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Nagoya Commercial College   (Japan)

^e Takai Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural study; Healthy German volunteers; Kasahara's Inventory for the Melancholic Type Personality; Typus melancholicus; Von Zerssen's F List

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; KASAHARA INVENTORY FOR THE MELANCHOLIC TYPE PERSONALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHEFFE TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STUDENT T TEST; VOLUNTEER; VON ZERSSEN F LIST;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33645463969     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091795     Document Type: Article

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