Premorbid personality in chronic fatigue syndrome as determined by the Temperament and Character Inventory

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-85

  Fukuda, Sanae ^a,b   Kuratsune, Hirohiko ^a,c   Tajima, Seiki ^a,c   Takashima, Shoko ^a   Yamagutchi, Kouzi ^a   Nishizawa, Yoshiki ^a   Watanabe, Yasuyoshi ^a,d  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF WELFARE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF TRANSCENDENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STEREOTYPY; TEMPERAMENT AND CHARACTER INVENTORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; CHARACTER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FATIGUE; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 70449650681     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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