Love of life and death distress: Two separate factors

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 267-278

  Abdel Khalek, Ahmed M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LIFE; LOVE; MALE; OBSESSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LIFE; LOVE; MALE; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 35648991895     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.55.4.b     Document Type: Article

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