Confounding of Big Five Personality Assessments in Emotional Disorders by Comorbidity and Current Disorder

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 389-397

  Spinhoven, Philip ^a,b   van der Does, Willem ^a,b   Ormel, Johan ^c   Zitman, Frans G ^b   Penninx, Brenda Wjh ^b,c,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Depression; Panic disorder; Personality; Remission; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881314203     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1885     Document Type: Article

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