Vital exhaustion measures and their associations with coronary heart disease risk factors in a sample of Spanish-speakers

Psychology and Health

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 787-799

  Bages N ^a   Falger, P R J ^b   Perez M G ^a   Appels, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anger; Coronary heart disease; Social support; Type A; Vital exhaustion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346387226     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870440008405581     Document Type: Article

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