Positive and negative religious coping in German breast cancer patients

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 533-547

  Zwingmann, Christian ^a   Wirtz, Markus ^b   Müller, Claudia ^a   Körber, Jürgen ^c   Murken, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Rehabilitation Center Nahetal   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Germany; Positive and negative religious coping; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FREIBURG QUESTIONNAIRE OF COPING WITH ILLNESS; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33751268372     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: 15733521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-006-9074-3     Document Type: Article

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