Marital dissatisfaction, psychological distress, and the coping of parents of pediatric cancer patients

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1012-1021

  Hoekstra Weebers, Josette E H M ^a   Jaspers, Jan P C ^a   Kamps, Willem A ^b   Klip, Ed C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coping styles; Parental marital dissatisfaction; Pediatric cancer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038979238     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/353642     Document Type: Article

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