The Influence of Religious Participation on the Adjustment of Female Inmates

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Levitt, Lacey ^a   Loper, Ann Booker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adjustment; incarceration; prison; religion; women

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIGHTING; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISCONDUCT; PRISON; PRISON ADJUSTMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; PRISON VIOLENCE INVENTORY; PRISONER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRISONERS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 64649088208     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015429     Document Type: Article

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