History of the Diagnosis of a Sexually Transmitted Disease is Linked to Normal Variation in Personality Traits

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2861-2867

  Mõttus, René ^a,b   Realo, Anu ^a   Allik, Jüri ^a,c   Esko, Tõnu ^a   Metspalu, Andres ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Behavioral Choices; Health Behaviors; Personality; Psychology; Sexually Transmitted Disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868203244     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02891.x     Document Type: Article

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