African Americans in bereavement: Grief as a function of ethnicity

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-193

  Laurie, Anna ^a   Neimeyer, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEREAVEMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; TENNESSEE;

EID: 44949230255     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.57.2.d     Document Type: Article

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