Two facets of being bothered by bodily sensations: anxiety sensitivity and alexithymia in psychosomatic patients

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 489-495

  Mueller, Jochen ^a   Alpers, Georg W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ANXIETY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33750196837     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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