Psychiatry Research
Volume 111, Issue 1 , Pages 45-54 , 5 August 2002

The Temperament Scale of Novelty Seeking in adolescents shows an association with season of birth opposite to that in adults

  • Jayanti Chotai

      Affiliations

    • Division of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Umeå, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46-90-785-0000; fax: +46-90-135324
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  • Mattias Jonasson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Umeå, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
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  • Bruno Hägglöf

      Affiliations

    • Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
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  • Rolf Adolfsson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Umeå, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden

Received 16 July 2001 ,Revised 29 January 2002 ,Accepted 23 April 2002.

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Psychiatry Research
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