Personality and risk for depression in a birth cohort of 70-year-olds followed for 15 years

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 663-671

  Duberstein, P R ^a   Palsson S P ^b   Waern, M ^c   Skoog, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Birth cohort; Depression; Neuroticism; Personality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAUDSLEY PERSONALITY INVENTORY SCALE; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHIATRIST; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHARACTER; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 41649113162     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291707002620     Document Type: Article

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