Patient and spouse perceptions of the patient's heart disease and their associations with received and provided social support and undermining

Psychology and Health

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 765-785

  Benyamini, Yael ^a   Medalion, Benjamin ^b   Garfinkel, Doron ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Shoham Geriatric Medical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Illness perceptions; Illness representations; Self regulation; Social support; Social undermining; Spouses

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547681729     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14768320601070639     Document Type: Article

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