Predicting relatedness and self-definition depressive experiences in aging women based on personality traits: A preliminary study

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 269-288

  Henriques Calado, Joana ^a   Duarte Silva, Maria Eugénia ^a   Campos, Rui C ^b   Sacoto, Carlota ^a   Keong, Ana Marta ^a   Junqueira, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE EXPERIENCES QUESTIONNAIRE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FIVE FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODEL; NEO FIVE FACTOR INVENTORY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SYMPTOM; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84884970275     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 19432828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2013.77.3.269     Document Type: Article

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