Is religiousness a correlate of absorption? Implications for psychophysiology, coping, and morbidity

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 72-76

  Levin, Jeffrey S ^a   Wickramasekera, Ian E ^b   Hirshberg, Caryle ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0032209723     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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