Distress in Couples Coping With Cancer: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review of Role and Gender Effects

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-30

  Hagedoorn, Mariët ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Bolks, Hilde N ^a   Tuinstra, Jolanda ^a   Coyne, James C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brief Symptom Inventory; depression; illness; marital; sex

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLE PLAYING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPOUSE; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ROLE; SEX FACTORS; SICK ROLE; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 38549092220     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.134.1.1     Document Type: Article

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