Stress and Coping Styles are Associated with Severe Fatigue in Medical Students

Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 87-92

  Tanaka, Masaaki ^a   Fukuda, Sanae ^a   Mizuno, Kei ^a   Kuratsune, Hirohiko ^b   Watanabe, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF WELFARE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350052713     PISSN: 08964289     EISSN: 19404026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08964280903231979     Document Type: Article

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