Personality and the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in medicine and psychology students

Personality Down Under: Perspectives from Australia

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 167-176

  Bore, Miles ^a   Ashley Brown, Gillian ^a   Gallagher, Emma ^a   Powis, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big five; Mental health; Personality; Psychiatric symptoms; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755181429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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