Marital Quality Moderates Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Internalizing Spectrum

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 826-837

  South, Susan C ^a   Krueger, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; factor; neuroticism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMORBIDITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MARRIAGE; NEUROSIS; PANIC; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 56849088757     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013499     Document Type: Article

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