Personality traits, defense mechanisms and hostility features associated with somatic symptom severity in both health and disease

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 362-369

  Hyphantis, Thomas ^a   Goulia, Panagiota ^a   Carvalho, Andre F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Defense mechanisms; Hostility; Medical illness; Personality; Somatic symptoms; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CONCEPT; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

DEFENSE MECHANISMS; HOSTILITY; MEDICAL ILLNESS; PERSONALITY; SOMATIC SYMPTOMS; SOMATIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885381079     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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