Validating the Type D personality construct in Chinese patients with coronary heart disease

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-118

  Yu, Doris S F ^a   Thompson, David R ^a   Yu, Cheuk Man ^a   Pedersen, Susanne S ^a   Denollet, Johan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coronary heart disease; Depression; DS14 scale; Psychometric evaluation; Type D personality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CHINESE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TYPE D PERSONALITY;

EID: 77954592406     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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