'I just cope from day to day': Unpredictability and anxiety in the lives of women

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1729-1739

  Walters, Vivienne ^a   Charles, Nickie ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Gender; Social class; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

CLASS RELATIONS; GENDER RELATIONS; HEALTH STATUS; UNCERTAINTY; WOMEN'S STATUS;

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MARRIAGE; MOTHER; NERVOUSNESS; PANIC; SELF CONCEPT; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WIDOW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WALES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

UK, WALES, SOUTH WALES;

EID: 0030853245     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00105-6     Document Type: Article

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