Salivary alpha-amylase levels and big five personality factors in adults

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 771-774

  Inukai, Keigo ^a,b   Shinada, Mizuho ^a   Tanida, Shigehito ^c   Takahashi, Chisato ^a   Mifune, Nobuhiro ^a   Takagishi, Haruto ^a,b   Horita, Yutaka ^a,b   Hashimoto, Hirofumi ^a,b   Yokota, Kunihiro ^d   Kameda, Tatsuya ^a   Yamagishi, Toshio ^a   Takahashi, Taiki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Society for the Promotion of Science   (Japan)

^c Nagano University   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Big five; Personality; Salivary alpha amylase; Stress; Sympathoadrenal medullary system

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; AGREEABLENESS; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; SALIVA LEVEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79751494904     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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