Dimensions of control: Mediational analyses of the stress-health relationship

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2237-2248

  Montpetit, M A ^a   Bergeman, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Control; Process; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548828817     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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