Alexithymia and temperament and character model of personality in patients with major depressive disorder

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-70

  Celikel, Feryal Cam ^a   Kose, Samet ^b   Erkorkmaz, Unal ^a   Sayar, Kemal ^c   Cumurcu, Birgul Elbozan ^a   Cloninger, C Robert ^d  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Bakirkoy Mental Hospital   (Turkey)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; REWARD; SELF TRANSCENDENCE; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CHARACTER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPERAMENT; TURKEY;

EID: 70449627879     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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