Are modern health worries, personality and attitudes to science associated with the use of complementary and alternative medicine?

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 229-243

  Furnham, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCIENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCIENCE;

EID: 34248531813     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135910706X100593     Document Type: Article

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