How stable is sense of coherence? Changes following an intervention for unemployed individuals: Personality and Social Sciences

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-171

  Vastamäki, Jaana ^a   Moser, Klaus ^a   Paul, Karsten Ingmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intervention; Sense of coherence; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PERSONALITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60949105655     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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