The Eysenck personality factors: Psychometric structure, reliability, heritability and phenotypic and genetic correlations with psychological distress in an isolated Croatian population

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-133

  Ivkovic, Vladimir ^a   Vitart, Veronique ^b   Rudan, Igor ^c   Janicijevic, Branka ^a   Smolej Narancic, Nina ^a   Skaric Juric, Tatjana ^a   Barbalic, Maja ^a   Polasek, Ozren ^c   Kolcic, Ivana ^c   Biloglav, Zrinka ^c   Visscher, Peter M ^d   Hayward, Caroline ^b   Hastie, Nicholas D ^b   Anderson, Niall ^e   Campbell, Harry ^e   Wright, Alan F ^b   Rudan, Pavao ^a   Deary, Ian J ^f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Croatia)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Croatia; Depression; EPQ; Extraversion; Genetics; GHQ; Heritability; Neuroticism; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750913546     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.025     Document Type: Article

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