Coping and psychological sense of community: An exploratory study of urban and rural areas in Greece

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-173

  Roussi, Pagona ^a   Rapti, Fani ^a   Kiosseoglou, Gregoris ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Communal coping; Coping context; Individualistic coping; Sense of community

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745623964     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800600593304     Document Type: Article

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