Direct and Indirect Effects of Five Factor Personality and Gender on Depressive Symptoms Mediated by Perceived Stress

• Song E. Kim,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

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• Han-Na Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Han-Na Kim, Hyung-Lae Kim

  * E-mail: o147942@ewha.ac.kr (HNK); hyung@ewha.ac.kr (HLK)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

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• Juhee Cho,

  Affiliations Center for Cohort Studies, Total Healthcare Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, SAHIST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Center, Research Institute for Future Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Health, Behavior and Society and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Min-Jung Kwon,

  Affiliations Center for Cohort Studies, Total Healthcare Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Yoosoo Chang,

  Affiliations Center for Cohort Studies, Total Healthcare Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Occupational Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

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• Seungho Ryu,

  Affiliations Center for Cohort Studies, Total Healthcare Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Occupational Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

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• Hocheol Shin,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Health Screening Center, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

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• Hyung-Lae Kim

  Contributed equally to this work with: Han-Na Kim, Hyung-Lae Kim

  * E-mail: o147942@ewha.ac.kr (HNK); hyung@ewha.ac.kr (HLK)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

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