Sense of coherence - A mediator between disability and handicap?

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 102-110

  Schnyder, Ulrich ^a   Büchi, Stefan ^a   Mörgeli, Hanspeter ^a   Sensky, Tom ^b   Klaghofer, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WEST MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accidents; Disability; Handicap; Impairment; Rheumatoid arthritis; Salutogenesis; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACCIDENTS; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0344859882     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000012320     Document Type: Article

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