Personality and all cause mortality: Evidence for indirect links

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-208

  Ploubidis, George B ^a   Grundy, Emily ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mortality; Neuroticism; Psychological distress; Somatic health; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349122605     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.02.022     Document Type: Article

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