Clinical and personality features of depressed college males: An exploratory investigation

International Journal of Men's Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-177

  Greenberg, Stefanie Teri ^a   Shepard, Samuel J ^a   Chuick, Christopher D ^a   Cochran, Sam V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Males; Masculinity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANGER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONFORMITY TO MASCULINE NORMS INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASCULINITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATING SCALE; RESPONSE STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE; RUMINATION; STATE TRAIT ANGER EXPRESSION INVENTORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE;

EID: 77649125325     PISSN: 15326306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3149/jmh.0802.169     Document Type: Article

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