Social support in coping with illness: The Berlin Social Support Scales (BSSS);Soziale unterstützung bei der krankheitsbewältigung: Die Berliner Social Support Skalen (BSSS)

Diagnostica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 73-82

  Schulz, Ute ^a   Schwarzer, Ralf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Coping; Social support; Surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037900887     PISSN: 00121924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026//0012-1924.49.2.73     Document Type: Article

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