Coping with unfair treatment at work - What is the relationship between coping and hypertension in middle-aged men and women?

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 86-94

  Theorell, Töres ^a,b   Alfredsson, Lars ^b   Westerholm, Peter ^c   Falck, Bengt ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anger; Body mass index; Coping; Gender; Hypertension; Social class

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SWEDEN; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033953445     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000012371     Document Type: Article

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