Cross-cultural comparison of explanatory models of illness in schizophrenic patients in Jordan and Germany

Psychological Reports

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 531-546

  Conrad, Rupert ^a   Geiser, Franziska ^a   Schilling, Guntram ^b   Sharif, Mahmoud ^c   Najjar, Daniah ^c   Liedtke, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DRV Hospital Bad Nauheim   (Germany)

^c Fheis Psychiatric Hospital

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; JORDAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; JORDAN; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 36849061682     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.101.2.531-546     Document Type: Article

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