The cultural shaping of alexithymia: Values and externally oriented thinking in a Chinese clinical sample

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 362-368

  Dere, Jessica ^a   Tang, Qiuping ^b   Zhu, Xiongzhao ^c   Cai, Lin ^c   Yao, Shuqiao ^c   Ryder, Andrew G ^a,d  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; THINKING;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CHINA; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL VALUES; THINKING;

EID: 84876407984     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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