The Everyday Feeling Questionnaire: The structure and validation of a measure of general psychological well-being and distress

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-423

  Uher, Rudolf ^a   Goodman, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Epidemiology; Psychometrics; Public mental health

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77949418655     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0074-9     Document Type: Article

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