Hostility and coping capacity as risk factors of elder mistreatment

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 48-52

  Comijs, H C ^a,b   Jonker, C ^a   Van Tilburg, W ^b   Smit, J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONTROL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGRESSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRIME VICTIMS; ELDER ABUSE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 0032930502     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050111     Document Type: Article

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