Relationship between defenses, personality, and affect during a stress task in normal adolescents

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-119

  Steiner, Hans ^a   Erickson, Sarah J ^b   MacLean, Peggy ^b   Medic, Sanja ^a   Plattner, Belinda ^a   Koopman, Cheryl ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Affect; Arousal; Defenses; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34249827272     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-007-0046-9     Document Type: Article

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