Coping Styles Associated with Psychological Adjustment to Advanced Breast Cancer

Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 434-437

  Classen, Catherine ^a   Koopman, Cheryl ^a   Angell, Karyn ^a   Spiegel, David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Coping; Psychological adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENIAL; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0030277715     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.15.6.434     Document Type: Article

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