Schizotypy, alexithymia, and socioemotional outcomes

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-121

  Seghers, James P ^a   McCleery, Amanda ^a   Docherty, Nancy M ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alexithymia; emotion; schizophrenia; schizotypy; social functioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXFORD LIVERPOOL INVENTORY FEELINGS AND EXPERIENCES; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT TO ILLNESS SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951630498     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182083bc4     Document Type: Article

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