Stress and coping research: Methodological challenges, theoretical advances, and clinical applications

American Psychologist

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 620-625

  Somerfield, Mark R ^a   McCrae, Robert R ^b  

^a AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034202642     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.55.6.620     Document Type: Review

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