Sensation seeking scales and traits delineating personality disorders in a sample of Chinese students

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-278

  Ke, Xueqin ^a   Ye, Xujun ^a   Xu, Yi ^a   Shen, Mowei ^b   Gao, Xian ^a   Zhang, Yuqing ^c   Livesley, W John ^d   Jang, Kerry L ^d   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Personality disorder; Personality trait; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751165743     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.018     Document Type: Article

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