Childhood adversity, attachment and personality styles as predictors of anxiety among elderly caregivers

Anxiety

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 234-241

  Prigerson, Holly G ^a,b   Shear, M Katherine ^a   Bierhals, Andrew J ^a   Zonarich, Dianna L ^a   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Bellefield Towers   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety in aged caregivers; Attachment; Childhood adversity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; SPOUSES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0030325234     PISSN: 10709797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-7154(1996)2:5<234::AID-ANXI5>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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