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The etiology of phobias: an evaluation of the stress-diathesis model.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Mar 2002
Kendler Kenneth S, Myers John, Prescott Carol A
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BACKGROUND: We evaluated for phobias the prediction of the stress-diathesis model that the magnitude of stress at onset is inversely proportional to the level of underlying diathesis. METHODS: In more than 7500 twins from a population-based registry, we assessed the personality trait of neuroticism--as an index of phobia-proneness--and the lifetime histories of 5 phobia subtypes (agoraphobia, social, animal,...
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