Coping styles and personality: A biometric analysis

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-24

  Jang, Kerry L ^a,c   Thordarson, Dana S ^a   Stein, Murray B ^b   Cohan, Sharon L ^b   Taylor, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping styles; Genetics; Personality; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; BIOMETRY; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TWINS;

EID: 33947376010     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800601170516     Document Type: Article

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