Anger management style, hostility and spouse responses: Gender differences in predictors of adjustment among chronic pain patients

Pain

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 445-453

  Burns, John W ^a   Johnson, Barbara J ^a   Mahoney, Neil ^b   Devine, James ^b   Pawl, Ronald ^b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Lake Forest Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Anger management; Chronic pain patient; Gender difference; Hostility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPOUSE;

EID: 0029937042     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(95)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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