Symptoms, personality traits, and stress in people with mobile phone-related symptoms and electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-45

  Johansson, Amanda ^a   Nordin, Steven ^a,b   Heiden, Marina ^c   Sandström, Monica ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Environmental illness; Environmental intolerance; Stress; Symptomatology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; EXHAUSTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LISTLESSNESS; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MOBILE PHONE RELATED SYMPTOM; PARESTHESIA; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STRESS; SYMPTOM; TINNITUS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 71049115987     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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