Personality Traits and Comorbidity in Adults With ADHD

Journal of Attention Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 845-854

  Instanes, Johanne Telnes ^a   Haavik, Jan ^a,b   Halmøy, Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

ADD ADHD; antisocial personality disorder; anxiety; depression; personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHARACTER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHARACTER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 84984971099     PISSN: 10870547     EISSN: 15571246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087054713511986     Document Type: Article

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