Repressive coping, emotional adjustment, and cognition in people who have lost loved ones to suicide

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 676-687

  Parker, Holly A ^a   Mcnally, Richard J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; BEREAVEMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRESSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDE;

EID: 61849116886     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.676     Document Type: Article

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