Life events, anxious depression and personality: A prospective and genetic study

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1557-1565

  Middeldorp, C M ^a,b   Cath, D C ^b   Beem, A L ^a   Willemsen, G ^a   Boomsma, D I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Life events; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXTRAVERSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NETHERLANDS; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHARACTER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASES IN TWINS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53649092767     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291708002985     Document Type: Article

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