Personality and participation in mass health checkups among Japanese community-dwelling elderly

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-159

  Iwasa, Hajime ^a   Masui, Yukie ^a   Gondo, Yasuyuki ^a   Yoshida, Yuko ^a   Inagaki, Hiroki ^a   Kawaai, Chieko ^a   Kim, Hunkyung ^a   Yoshida, Hideyo ^a   Suzuki, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mass health checkups; NEO Five Factor Inventory; Openness; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANXIETY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 58149510111     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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