Monitoring: A dual-function coping style

Journal of Personality

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 457-478

  Shiloh, Shoshana ^a   Orgler Shoob, Michal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33644929990     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00381.x     Document Type: Review

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