Eysenck's model of personality and psychopathological components in right- and left-handers

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1267-1272

  Beratis, Ion N ^a,b   Rabavilas, Andreas D ^b   Papadimitriou, George N ^a   Papageorgiou, Charalabos ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

EPQ; Eysenck; Handedness; Personality; SCL 90

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953162041     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.033     Document Type: Article

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