A cross-cultural study of the higher-order structures underlying personality disorders in french-speaking Africa and Switzerland

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-186

  Rigozzi, Christine ^a   Rossier, Jérôme ^a   Dahourou, Donatien ^b   Adjahouisso, Marcel ^c   Ah Kion, Jennifer ^d   Amoussou Yeye, Denis ^c   Barry, Oumar ^e   Bhowon, Uma ^d   Bouatta, Cherifa ^f   Cissé, Daouda Dougoumalé ^g   Mbodji, Mamadou ^e   De Stadelhofen, Franz Meyer ^a   Minga, David Minga ^h   Tseung, Caroline Ng ^d   Ondongo, François ⁱ   Romdhane, Mohamed Nouri ^j   Sfayhi, Nicole ^j   Tsokini, Dieudonné ⁱ   Verardi, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^f Algerian Society for Psychological Research   (Algeria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

ⁱ University of Brazzaville   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^j University of Tunis El Manar   (Tunisia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 65249138394     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 0885579X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2009.23.2.175     Document Type: Article

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