MMPI-2 profiles of Australian and Singaporean psychiatric patients

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-161

  Woo, Matthew ^a   Oei, Tian P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese; Culture; Internationality; MMPI 2; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION POTENTIAL SCALE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY 2; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGAPORE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 33847764996     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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