Death anxiety and religiosity among Lithuanian health and social service professionals

Death Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 731-742

  Roff, Lucinda Lee ^a   Butkeviciene, Ruta ^b   Klemmack, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MALE; RELIGION; SOCIAL WORK;

ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIGION; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0036830342     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180290106517     Document Type: Article

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