The association of schizophrenia with split personality is not an ubiquitous phenomenon

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 780-786

  Schomerus, Georg ^a   Kenzin, Denis ^a   Borsche, Julia ^a   Matschinger, Herbert ^a   Angermeyer, Matthias C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Schizophrenia; Split personality; Stereotype; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAMPLING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STEREOTYPY; STIGMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUSSIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 34748836495     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0235-7     Document Type: Article

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