Evidence for a specific link between the personality trait of absorption and idiopathic environmental intolerance

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 71, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 795-802

  Witthöft, Michael ^a   Rist, Fred ^b   Bailer, Josef ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; PERSONALITY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 46749118010     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390801985687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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