Personality traits in an Italian sample: Relationship with anxiety and depression

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 26-30

  Minelli, Alessandra ^a   Pedrini, Laura ^a   Magni, Laura Rosa ^a   Rotondo, Alessandro ^b  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Personality traits; TCI

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951476209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17450179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1745017900905010026     Document Type: Article

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