Personality features and personality disorders in chronic fatigue Syndrome: A population-based study

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 312-318

  Nater, Urs M ^a,b   Jones, James F ^a   Lin, Jin Mann S ^a   Maloney, Elizabeth ^a   Reeves, William C ^a   Heim, Christine ^b  

^a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic fatigue syndrome; Personality; Personality disorders; Population based study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONSCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRAVERSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; NARCISSISM; NEUROSIS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOIA; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SHORT FORM 36; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954882190     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319312     Document Type: Article

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