Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 20-28 , January 2004

Assessing personality features and their relations with behavioral problems in adolescents: tridimensional personality questionnaire and junior eysenck personality questionnaire

  • Po-Hsiu Kuo

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and the Center for Disease Control, Department of Health Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yi-Chien Chih

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and the Center for Disease Control, Department of Health Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Wei-Tsuen Soong

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and the Center for Disease Control, Department of Health Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hao-Jan Yang

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and the Center for Disease Control, Department of Health Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Wei J Chen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and the Center for Disease Control, Department of Health Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Wei J. Chen, M.D., Sc.D., Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, 1 Jen-Ai Road, Sec. 1, Taipei 100, Taiwan

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☆ Supported by grants from the National Science Council, Taiwan (NSC86-2314-B002-328, NSC87-2314-B002-290, NSC88-2314-B002-247, and NSC89-2320-B002-106).

PII: S0010-440X(03)00173-1

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2003.09.011

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 20-28 , January 2004

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