Five-factor model personality traits, spirituality/religiousness, and mental health among people living with HIV

Journal of Personality

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1411-1436

  Löckenhoff, Corinna E ^a   Ironson, Gail H ^b   O'Cleirigh, Conall ^c   Costa Jr , Paul T ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; SPIRITUALITY; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69749107939     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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