title: Physique, personality and mental illness in southern Chinese women.
abstract: A number of anthropometric measurements were made on Southern Chinese women. These were 317 schizophrenics, 44 with affective disorder, 47 neurotics and normal controls. All groups and sub-groups compared were matched for mean age and socio-economic status. It was found that the intercorrelations between body build, personality and type of mental illness were on the whole similar to those reported for Caucasians.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000453:epidemiology; D000886:Anthropometry; D001835:Body Weight; D002681:China; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000453:epidemiology; D012923:Social Class; D013008:Somatotypes