Personality Types, Personality Traits, and Risky Health Behavior

Handbook of Personality and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 215-233

  Torgersen, Svenn ^a,b   Vollrath, Margarete E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Eastern and Southern Norway   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Disease; Health behavior; Overcontrolled children; Personality; Personality psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547184688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713860.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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