Assessment of psychological well-being in psychosomatic medicine

Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 182-202

  Rafanelli, Chiara ^a   Ruini, Chiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTASIS; COOPERATION; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICS;

ALLOSTASIS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 84856021836     PISSN: 00653268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000330021-21     Document Type: Article

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