What helps middle-aged widows with their psychological and social adaptation several years after their loss?

Death Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 621-642

  Ungar, Lea ^a,c   Florian, Victor ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Bar Ilan University ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFE EVENT; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; WIDOW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; GRIEF; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE PERSON; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 4143065128     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180490476434     Document Type: Article

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