Beliefs in genetic determinism and attitudes towards psychiatric genetic research: Psychometric scale properties, construct associations, demographic correlates, and cross-cultural comparisons

Psychological Reports

Volumn 101, Issue 3 I, 2007, Pages 979-986

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Loibl, Lisa Mariella ^a   Swami, Viren ^b   Furnham, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC DETERMINISM; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH;

EID: 38349027109     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.101.3.979-986     Document Type: Article

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