Death obsession in Palestinians

Death Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-215

  Abdel Khalek, Ahmed M ^a   Al Arja, Nahida S ^b   Abdalla, Taysir ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KUWAIT; LEBANON; MALE; OBSESSION; PALESTINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ANXIETY; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 31544465279     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180500493302     Document Type: Article

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