Adolescent Personality: Associations With Basal, Awakening, and Stress-Induced Cortisol Responses

Journal of Personality

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 262-273

  Laceulle, Odilia M ^a   Nederhof, Esther ^a   van Aken, Marcel A G ^b   Ormel, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONSCIENCE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONSCIENCE; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PERSONALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84946165046     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12101     Document Type: Article

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