The role of religious coping in adjustment to cancer

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 428-441

  Nairn, Raymond C ^a   Merluzzi, Thomas V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SELF EFFICACY; SICK ROLE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0038298325     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.654     Document Type: Article

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