Personality and fatigue in medical students

Psychological Reports

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 567-575

  Tanaka, Masaaki ^a   Mizuno, Kei ^b   Fukuda, Sanae ^b   Watanabe, Yasuyoshi ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEMPERAMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952990634     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.106.2.567-575     Document Type: Article

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