Personal Resilience, Cognitive Appraisals, and Coping: An Integrative Model of Adjustment to Abortion

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 735-752

  Major, Brenda ^a   Richards, Caroline ^a   Cozzarelli, Catherine ^e   Cooper, M Lynne ^b   Zubek, Josephine ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e University of Missouri ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INDUCED ABORTION; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERSONALITY TEST; PERSONALITY--WOMEN; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESEARCH REPORT; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; STRESS--WOMEN; STUDIES; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ABORTION, INDUCED; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERSONALITY--WOMEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; SATISFACTION; STRESS--WOMEN; STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREGNANCY; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0032011424     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.3.735     Document Type: Article

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