Body size at birth and socio-economic status in childhood: Implications for Cloninger's psychobiological model of temperament at age 60

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-174

  Lahti, Jari ^a   Räikkönen, Katri ^a   Heinonen, Kati ^a   Pesonen, Anu Katriina ^a   Kajantie, Eero ^b   Forsén, Tom ^b   Osmond, Clive ^c   Barker, David J P ^c   Eriksson, Johan G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth length; Birth weight; Head circumference; Personality; Prenatal; Temperament

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLONINGER PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL MODEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL STATUS; TEMPERAMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 46849108129     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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