Psychiatric resilience: Longitudinal twin study

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 275-280

  Amstadter, Ananda B ^a   Myers, John M ^a   Kendler, Kenneth S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; TWINS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CONTROL; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TWINS;

EID: 84908131644     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.130906     Document Type: Article

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