Self-Transcendence and Correlates in a Healthy Population

Nursing Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 116-121

  Coward, Doris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030096415     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006199-199603000-00011     Document Type: Article

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