Do We Know How We Cope? Relating Daily Coping Reports to Global and Time-Limited Retrospective Assessments

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 310-319

  Todd, Michael ^a,c   Tennen, Howard ^a   Carney, Margaret Anne ^a   Affleck, Glenn ^a   Armeli, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1342346185     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.310     Document Type: Article

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