The limits of 'adaptive' coping: Well-being and mood reactions to stressors among women in abusive dating relationships

Stress

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-91

  Matheson, Kimberly ^a   Skomorovsky, Alla ^a   Fiocco, Alexandra ^a   Anisman, Hymie ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping; Dating abuse; Depression; Emotional stress; Mood; Young women

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOOD CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; BATTERED WOMEN; CUES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENTAL HEALTH; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33947311188     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890701208313     Document Type: Article

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