Exploring relations among religiousness, meaning, and adjustment to lifetime and current stressful encounters in later life

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-45

  Park, Crystal L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Aging; Coping; Meaning; Religion; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645151267     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800600581259     Document Type: Article

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