Tinnitus severity, depression, and the big five personality traits

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 166, Issue , 2007, Pages 221-225

  Langguth, B ^a   Kleinjung, T ^a   Fischer, B ^a   Hajak, G ^a   Eichhammer, P ^a   Sand, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

affective comorbidity; big five personality traits; coping; predictors; tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TINNITUS;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TINNITUS;

EID: 35348907985     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)66020-8     Document Type: Review

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