Relationship of Sleep Quality with Coping and Life Styles in Female Moroccan Immigrants in Germany

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 210-216

  Voss, Ursula ^a   Tuin, Inka ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LIFESTYLE; MONITORING; MOROCCO; RATING SCALE; SLEEP; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 42749087858     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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