Psychosocial resources and the SES-Health relationship

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 896, Issue , 1999, Pages 210-225

  Taylor, Shelley E ^a   Seeman, Teresa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFLICT; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGEVITY; MOTIVATION; SELF CONTROL; SKILL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS;

EID: 0033397192     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08117.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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