Post-traumatic growth from life's most traumatic event: Influences on elders' current coping and adjustment

Traumatology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 297-306

  Park, Crystal L ^a   Mills Baxter, Mary Alice ^a   Fenster, Juliane R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Coping; Death attitudes; Posttraumatic growth (PTG); Stress related growth scale (SRGS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449114194     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153476560501100408     Document Type: Article

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