Does marriage protect older people from distress? The role of equity and recency of bereavement

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 611-620

  Hagedoorn, Mariët ^a   Van Yperen, Nico W ^b   Coyne, James C ^c   Van Jaarsveld, Cornelia H M ^a   Ranchor, Adelita V ^a   Van Sonderen, Eric ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Crisis theory; Gender; Single; Widowed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; WIDOW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BEREAVEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE PERSON; SPOUSES; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 33749016014     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.3.611     Document Type: Article

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