Repressive coping and alexithymia in idiopathic environmental intolerance

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 299-310

  Skovbjerg, Sine ^a   Zachariae, Robert ^b   Rasmussen, Alice ^a   Johansen, Jeanne Duus ^a   Elberling, Jesper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Chemical sensitivity; Functional somatic syndromes; Negative affectivity; Repressive coping; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC ENVIRONMENTAL INTOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARLOWE CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; NEGATIVE AFFECTIVITY SCALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SYMPTOM; TAYLOR MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE;

EID: 77956481118     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-010-0143-4     Document Type: Article

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