The Sources of Meaning Profile (SOMP) with Aged Subjects Exhibiting Depressive Symptomatology

Clinical Gerontologist

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 25-39

  Prager, Edward ^a   Bar Tur, Leora ^a   Abramowici, Ilana ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHALVATA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0030895476     PISSN: 07317115     EISSN: 15452301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J018v17n03_04     Document Type: Article

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