Acceptance as a coping reaction: Adaptive or not?

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-292

  Nakamura, Yuka Maya ^a,b   Orth, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Coping behavior; Mental health; Negative events

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244466323     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.64.4.281     Document Type: Article

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