Living with loss: Middle-aged men face spousal bereavement

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 625-639

  Daggett, Luann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES; WIDOW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALABAMA; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSES; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 0036582743     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104973202129120142     Document Type: Article

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