The relationship of illness uncertainty and attributional style to long-term psychological distress in parents of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Children's Health Care

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-154

  Carpentier, Melissa Y ^a   Mullins, Larry L ^b   Chaney, John M ^a   Wagner, Janelle L ^c  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTAL ATTITUDE;

EID: 33748054268     PISSN: 02739615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326888chc3502_3     Document Type: Article

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